I just joined this list, so please be patient. I have a hundred
questions but I will try to dribble in them a few at a time.
First, how does one get around the "md-personality-3" error that comes
up while autodetecting? I did put "alias md-personality-3 raid1" in the
conf.modules to no avail. (I
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote:
Hi,
I just joined this list, so please be patient. I have a hundred
questions but I will try to dribble in them a few at a time.
On http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ you have just
what you're looking for :)
First, how
Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote:
Hi,
I just joined this list, so please be patient. I have a hundred
questions but I will try to dribble in them a few at a time.
On http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ you have
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote:
Hi,
Yo have two chances: either compile RAID support in the kernel, or
make a initrd image. All support needed to autodetect the RAID (IDE, SCSI,
RAID, whatever) must be available at booting time.
I am using RH 6.0 and the
At 07:38 AM 10/6/1999 -0400, you wrote:
I am using RH 6.0 and the kernel is 2.2. I am using raid .90-3, (a rpm
package) and I have looked over every doc I could find on raid. A few
newsgroups have references to the md-personality-3 problem but none have
any solutions.
If the kernel weren't
Hello,
The kickstart mode uses the text mode installer. Therefore the option to
create raid devices during the installation is not available. Hopefully
this will be included in a future release.
Cheers,
---
Tom Jones "ELVIS"
From: "Mike Frisch" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:06:45 -0400
You're kidding, aren't you? Seems like RedHat is really trying to go the
SuSE
way and become Windows...
Oh, please do tell why a graphical installer is a bad thing... especially
if it allows installation
Server With 2 Hard disk 2GB scsi
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
Linux Mandrake 6 + raidtools-0.90
/ on /dev/sda1
swap on /dev/sdb1
Howto make a stripped configuration
???
when i try to mkraid /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
the system won't make it because /dev/sda already mounted and in use
???
Help me
[ Tuesday, October 5, 1999 ] Tom Jones wrote:
Yes. You can install root to a raid device during the install. However
you will still need to have a /boot that is not on the raid device.
Actually, I don't believe this is the case With RH 6.1 you
no longer need to keep the separate
Ok,
I stand corrected. You are correct the new lilo _will_ work with / and
/boot partitions that are on a raid device. Thanks for setting me
straight.
---
Tom Jones "ELVIS" May the Source
Red Hat Inc
Title: FW: Dream RAID System
Hardware RAID does not necessarily preclude speed. I put a Mylex extremeraid 1164 (32MB cache, 2 channels) in a dual 450MHz P3 connected to 4 18GB 10K RPM seagate wide low voltage differential SCSI disks in a raid 5 config and got about 22 MB/sec reads and writes
[ Wednesday, October 6, 1999 ] Stephen Waters wrote:
James Manning wrote:
[ Tuesday, October 5, 1999 ] Tom Jones wrote:
The patched lilo that comes with Red Hat 6.1 includes the (extensive)
lilo.raid1 patch that appears to allow booting from not only s/w raid1
but also other s/w raid's
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:38:07AM -0400, James Manning wrote:
[ Tuesday, October 5, 1999 ] Tom Jones wrote:
Yes. You can install root to a raid device during the install. However
you will still need to have a /boot that is not on the raid device.
Actually, I don't believe this is the
I'll be playing with it this weekend, so we'll see. If more detailed
personal accounts haven't been posted by Monday, I'll give my what-for.
--
Jeremy Stanley Trend CMHS
Network Engineer http://www.trendcmhs.org
The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily
so to clarify, the solution for removing, adding, and spinning up a scsi
disk drive is:
echo "scsi remove-single-device a b c d" /proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device a b c d " /proc/scsi/scsi
in line 2, the space after the d is important due to a bug
where:
a is Host No (usually 0)
b
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Kenneth Cornetet wrote:
Hardware RAID does not necessarily preclude speed. I put a Mylex extremeraid
1164 (32MB cache, 2 channels) in a dual 450MHz P3 connected to 4 18GB 10K
RPM seagate wide low voltage differential SCSI disks in a raid 5 config and
got about 22 MB/sec
On mer, oct 06, 1999 at 12:06:06 -0500, Kenneth Cornetet wrote:
Hardware RAID does not necessarily preclude speed. I put a Mylex extremeraid
1164 (32MB cache, 2 channels) in a dual 450MHz P3 connected to 4 18GB 10K
RPM seagate wide low voltage differential SCSI disks in a raid 5 config and
[ Wednesday, October 6, 1999 ] Marc Merlin wrote:
Hardware Raid is usually slow for things like initializing an array, or
rebuilding a parity disk. Whatever is on those boards can't compete with
what today's CPUs can do.
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
I need some help getting autodetect working. I've tried everything and am
probably just missing some little piece.
I am running Mandrake 6.0. I have a custom kernel, 2.2.12 with the raid0145
patch set and raidtools 0.90 (and lvm support). Raid is set up in the
kernel
with the
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Alvin Oga wrote:
I'd be interested in writing an installer/duplicator...
- I like to do something like:
a. give um a bootable cdrom... ( self detect the hardwara )
( aka rescue cdrom )
Try the PXE stuff in redhat 6.1. (For some reason, I'm just
I finally got around to upgrading our oldest RAID0 to the new kernel and
tools. I had planned to change chunk size from 16MB (16K blocks) to 64MB
(64K blocks). However, the new tools has a limit in linux/raid/md_k.h as
follows:
#define MAX_CHUNK_SIZE (4096*1024)
Will something break if I
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One more pre15 test:
2.2.13pre15 with Unified IDE 2.2.13pre14-19991003 (two rejects in ide.c, one ok, one
probably harmless):
(5) dual P3 machine: NULL deref after 6 hours (i.e. this pre15 kernel survived
longest)
is it correct that this failing
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 mingo wrote:
is it correct that this failing kernel didnt have the RAID patch applied?
for the record:
My (similar, single, but rather immediate) failure happened on a
kernel without RAID patch (and without RAID enabled) at all.
Once I removed '-mcpu=i686 -O6'
Ingo Molnar wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can think of these possible reasons for the SMP problems:
(A) SMP race(s) in IDE driver in original 2.2.13pre15
(B) SMP-deadlock in raid-2.2.11-patch
(B) is quite unlikely if you do not have it applied and the box still
crashes? My
Since this is appearing to be a disk only thingy
There is an item to be addressed in ide-disk.c
PIO request cues...as they take longer to serviceis is
possible that we are slipping out of the rq- order and loading the
do_ide_request with repeated calls more often than the
This is the summary of my SMP+IDE tests, done with several kernels. The important ones
however were all done with the same 2.2.13pre15 kernel binary.
The following with 2.2.13pre15 SMP kernel (for applied patches see below):
what didn´t work:
(1) dual P3 machine: kernel up for 10 mins, rm of
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