mkraid fails while creating a new raid 0 array

1999-09-21 Thread Robert M. Albrecht
Hi, I'm using RedHat 6.0 on a Pentium II system. It has three scsi-harddisks. I use the first one to boot the systems and want to create a raid on the two other disks. I've created an /etc/raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2

Re: Kernel probs...

1999-09-21 Thread Egon Eckert
Where do I get the pre-2.2.13 patches? Looked on kernel.org but they weren't there. http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.13pre/ Egon Eckert

Re: mkraid fails while creating a new raid 0 array

1999-09-21 Thread Neezam Haniff
"Robert M. Albrecht" wrote: Hi, I'm using RedHat 6.0 on a Pentium II system. It has three scsi-harddisks. I use the first one to boot the systems and want to create a raid on the two other disks. I've created an /etc/raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0

Benchmark w/3 50gig Barracudas

1999-09-21 Thread Chris Mauritz
Just thought I would drop this note to the list. A couple of my 50gig drives were "repurposed" before I could run the test so this is only a 3 disk RAID 0 stripeset. The production system will have 8 drives (4 on each channel). I'm wondering if this will scale linearly and give me over

RE: Patch and raid tools for 2.2.12

1999-09-21 Thread Jason A. Diegmueller
: The latest kernel patch and raid tool combination I found on : ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha was for the : 2.2.11 kernel. : Where might I find the 2.2.12 kernel patches? As I had been told a few days ago by this list (and indeed found it to be true), the 19990824 kernel patch

Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Stephen Waters
i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration? on which controllers and kernel versions? thanks for your input, stephen waters internal sysadmin amicus, inc.

Re: RAID is now working...

1999-09-21 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 07:40:59PM -0400, David Cooley wrote: Mine started doing that on the second PTI card I installed... Got looking at the boot messages where it first detects the cards... My old one (working fine) is detected as ultra scsi... the "new one" is detected as fast

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Lawrence Dickson
FAILED in 18 disk SCSI RAID-5 with no spares. I pulled a disk followed by a dd if=/dev/md0 and it tried to reconstruct without a new disk and went into uninterruptible sleep. Larry Dickson At 03:16 PM 9/21/99 -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel Bidwell
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:16:18PM -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration? on which controllers and kernel versions? I am usinge a Compaq 2500 with 5 18GB disks, on Debian 2.1, Kernel