Re: Beginner's experiences

1999-09-23 Thread Dave Wreski
> > - No kernel patches for 2.2.12 available (using 2.2.11 causes confusion) > > ftp://ftp.nodak.edu/pub/linux/ESD/kernel/raid0145-19990824-2.2.12.gz Who built this patch? Is there any word on a patch being distributed by Ingo and crew? Thanks, Dave

Problem unmounting...

1999-09-23 Thread Marc Mutz
Hi out there! This problem is with a raid'ed device, so I feel this is the right place to ask... It goes like this: I just wanted to add a third hd to my two-way raid array. I did the following (I don't remember the exact wording of the messages, so I give only glipses of them): # init S ... ru

RE: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Tom Livingston
> For what it's worth, this particular box is NOT running any IDE > drives. It has (4) 2.1gb SCSI drives on an aic78xx adapter. > > The machine itself is an old HP Netserver LXe Pro with (2) > processors (only one running now, obviously) and 192MB of RAM. > > I can't switch to 2.2.13pre11-non-RA

Re: Beginner's experiences

1999-09-23 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Sep 23, 12:22pm, Martin Lichtin wrote: } Subject: Beginner's experiences > from someone who just-learned-how-to-setup-mirror-disks. I stumbled > across the following: > > - No kernel patches for 2.2.12 available (using 2.2.11 causes confusion) ftp://ftp.nodak.edu/pub/linux/ESD/kernel/raid014

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
You know the boot process... first your boot manager boots up (lilo) which calls your kernel, once your kernel has done its thing it looks for a file called init init starts all your shell and all your initialisation files. If your getting the message that it cant find init, it measn that the ini

Newbie on RAID - please help

1999-09-23 Thread Original Smarty
hello all, I just installed raid 1 on two hard disks (using raidtools package in redbhat 6.0) The first hard disk has a two Gb root partition which is the linux "/"/ sda1/ sda3 Raid partition 1 sdb3Raid partition 2 Now, in this config, when the secind hard d

Re: Patch and raid tools for 2.2.12

1999-09-23 Thread CJones
Tomas Fasth wrote: > > "Robert E. Lee" wrote: > > > 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? > > For some time now I have used the "pre" patches th

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Mark Ferrell
I am getting the feeling that something in the IDE code isn't SMP safe as all the lockups on SMP I am hearing about involving raid on IDE. I have had zero flaws with SMP + raid .. but then I don't use any IDE components in my systems at all. HA Quoc Viet wrote: > "Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote: >

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Mark Ferrell
No, I havn't had lockups at all that I remember, regardless of how hard I beat on the machine. The system is a Dell PowerEdge2300 using AIC-7880 controlers for the drives, and using the AIC-7860(?) for the dat drive and cd-rom. I run the same patches on a Dell OptiPlex GX1 using an AIC-7880 cont

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
Enable what in the kernel? I did compile it with raid linear and raid0 support also with boot raid support, i checked that. At 19:38 23/09/99 +0200, you wrote: >Kelina wrote: > > > To answer ur 2nd question. No i haven't made a separate partition since > > according > > to /usr/src/linux/Document

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Kelina wrote: > To answer ur 2nd question. No i haven't made a separate partition since > according > to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/md.txt Booting from raid linear and raid0 > is currently > supported (might b reading it incorrectly) Don't forget to enable this in the kernel. That is, you

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
Let me explain... i haven't actually ran raid yet, i want it to run raid0, but it's not working yet. And i'm trying to get it to work from my current setup. Which is just 2 ide hd's of which 1 has data and the 2nd was recently added... Both are formatted with diskdruid and have linux native parti

Re: Patch and raid tools for 2.2.12

1999-09-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Tomas Fasth wrote: > For some time now I have used the "pre" patches that Alan Cox provides. They > have the new RAID code applied. I gave a flat out false statement. The pre patches do NOT have new RAID code applied. I beg your pardon for this blunder. You still has to apply the raid0145 patch

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread David Cooley
At 02:59 PM 9/23/1999 +0200, HA Quoc Viet wrote: >Well, I jumped from 2.2.10+SMP to 2.2.12+SMP. I've never used RAID >and never got a lock/oops ... I went from 2.2.5 smp to 2.2.11 smp to 2.2.12 smp, all with raid. I had a few probs with raid until I added the raid patch, but the machine is roc

Re: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread Kay Salzwedel
Ups, I guess it was me fault! You were right, I did not get the latest raidtools! Now, its working! Thanks for your help! Greetings Kay -- Kay A Salzwedel Heinz Nixdorf Institute University of Paderborn Germany --

RE: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread David Cooley
At 09:52 AM 9/23/1999 -0400, Drenning Bruce wrote: >not to quibble, but the latest version is 0.90-5 (on i386 anyway). Ah.. I need to get it then... Last time I grabbed them is was still -3... I need to check more often! === David Cooley N5X

RE: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread Drenning Bruce
not to quibble, but the latest version is 0.90-5 (on i386 anyway). > -Original Message- > From: David Cooley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 9:22 AM > To: Kay Salzwedel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Raidtools > > At 02:30 PM 9/23/1999 +0200, Kay S

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
Um raid0 should strip everything evenly across both hda1 and hdc1. You should have roughly the same amount of data on each partition. I dont see how hdc could be completely empty and hda have 2gb of data on it, or maybe i misunderstannd your setup? Are you using a seperate boot partition (/b

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
Kelina wrote: > What i get when booting is the following: > > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. This usually happens when something is mounted as root which is not installed as root. In particular, if /dev and /etc is mi

Re: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread David Cooley
At 02:30 PM 9/23/1999 +0200, Kay Salzwedel wrote: >Hi folks, > >thanks for the replays to my earlier problem. Now I got kernel 2.2.11 >and the patch raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. It went well until I tried to >compile the latest raidtools (raidtools-0.41). During the configure it >say's that I have n

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
In when i did make menuconfig it said in the kernel-help that there was support, for booting from a raid linear and raid0 device. Also the HOWTO says u don't have to fool around with init scripts anymore cuz in the new raidpatches it can all b done without em Surge At 15:14 23/09/99 +0200

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread HA Quoc Viet
"Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote: > > : > : A number of us are having similar problems currently with > : > : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth > : > : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the > : > : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is >

Re: running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Sjoerd Tromp
As far as I can see you are using the correct raidtab. I've once set up a raid-o device. togheter with somebody else.. for as far as I can remember you have to make a initrd with the raidmodules.. and configer lilo to use that initrd Sjoerd Tromp On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Kelina wrote: > I'm trying

Re: Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
At 14:30 23/09/99 +0200, Kay Salzwedel wrote: >Hi folks, > >thanks for the replays to my earlier problem. Now I got kernel 2.2.11 >and the patch raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. It went well until I tried to >compile the latest raidtools (raidtools-0.41). During the configure it >say's that I have no Ra

HP LH3 serveur with NetRaid Controler

1999-09-23 Thread Sébastien COTTALORDA
Is anybody manage to install the RedHat 6.0 on this server ? I've just bougth this server and want to install RH6.0 but he didn't recognize the HP NetRaid controler. Ok for the SCSI adapter but not the Raid. Thanks in advance. Sébastien

RE: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Jason A. Diegmueller
: > : A number of us are having similar problems currently with : > : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth : > : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the : > : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is : > : if you could run 2.2.13pre11 without

running raid as boot

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
I'm trying to run a raid0 setup as boot device with ide 2 disks on my linux 2.2.12 kernel patched with the latest raidpatch and ide patch and compiled with raid linear and raid 0 support. What i get when booting is the following: Warning: unable to open an initial console Kernel Panic: No init

Raidtools

1999-09-23 Thread Kay Salzwedel
Hi folks, thanks for the replays to my earlier problem. Now I got kernel 2.2.11 and the patch raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. It went well until I tried to compile the latest raidtools (raidtools-0.41). During the configure it say's that I have no Raid definitions in the kernel headers: configure:789

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread HA Quoc Viet
"Jason A. Diegmueller" wrote: > > : A number of us are having similar problems currently with > : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth > : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the > : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is > : if you could

RE: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Jason A. Diegmueller
: A number of us are having similar problems currently with : 2.2.1? with many ide disks and SMP. It is probably worth : sending linux-kernel a summary of your difficulty, as the : topic is being discussed. What Alan would really like is : if you could run 2.2.13pre11 without the raid code, and

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Mike Black
Mark...Just for the record...were you having lockups previously? I have had 2.2.12pre7 SMP and non-SMP lockup on me. However, I split out some of the hardware on the box and now I've been up for 7 days without lockup. What is was: Dual PIII/450 / - Mirrored IDE /usr2 - RAID5 - 3x9G SCSI on AIC7

Re: problem while compiling kernel

1999-09-23 Thread Kelina
I just did the very same thing Kernel: 2.2.12 Patch: raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 added Raid0 and Linear support, Raid5 as module *BUT* i also used an ide patch ide.2.2.12.patch.gz which i can get from the people's dir under hedrick from any ftp.xx.kernel.org ftp. I patched the kernel with raidpat

Beginner's experiences

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Lichtin
from someone who just-learned-how-to-setup-mirror-disks. I stumbled across the following: - No kernel patches for 2.2.12 available (using 2.2.11 causes confusion) - raidtools-19990824-0.90 contains old 0.90.2 HOWTO - raidtools: What are the raid?.conf.sample files for? - /proc/mdstat: What do the

Re: Patch and raid tools for 2.2.12

1999-09-23 Thread Tomas Fasth
"Robert E. Lee" wrote: > 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? For some time now I have used the "pre" patches that Alan Cox provides. They have the

problem while compiling kernel

1999-09-23 Thread Kay Salzwedel
Hi folks, I encountered an error while compiling the kernel. Here is my configuration: * Kernel: 2.2.12 * Patch: raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 * added Raid0 and Linear support This is what I got: fs/fs.o: In function `cache_drop_behind': fs/fs.o(.text+0x2f32): undefined reference to `buffer_lowprio'

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Lichtin
Stephen Waters wrote: > We have an aic7xxx (2940uw) currently and i am curious how well > it would work in a hotswap situation. is there some sort of command you > tell the aic7xxx driver to tell it that you're going to remove a disk? > linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx didn't seem to say anything