Re: Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 10:24:31PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Jakob Østergaard wrote: > > Shouldn't the raidhotadd command check that the supplied disk > > name to be added is actually a valid device in the raidtab file ? > > I'm not so sure... > > I never saw raidhotadd as being an applicat

RE: Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Tom Livingston
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > Shouldn't the raidhotadd command check that the supplied disk > name to be added is actually a valid device in the raidtab file ? I'm not so sure... I never saw raidhotadd as being an application that required the drive to already be known. In fact, I always presumed i

SCSI Controller

1999-10-16 Thread Pat Heath
OK, If I compile the aic7xxx support into the kernel I get the following message over and over when trying to configure 2930 controller. If it is compiled as a module my first PCI SCSI Card works fine (2940U2W), but the 2930 is only seen by the BIOS, but not acknoledged by the kernel. SCSI0:-1:-

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 04:12:54PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff: > > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I > > tried to cause > > > > A stripe of ONE raid5 doesnt make sense ... > > If you say so. > > What I meant of course, is can you duplicate the same b

Re: raidtools kernel patch

1999-10-16 Thread Robert
Hm, those 2.2.11 raid patches did not work for me. After applying and ignoring the 2 errors, I got this upon compiling: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.12/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -m

Bugreport - missing check on hotadd

1999-10-16 Thread Jakob Østergaard
I just learned (the hard way!) that you can raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/whatever By accident I added /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hdc3 to a degraded RAID-1. And it worked ! Well, it worked until the swap-partition on /dev/hdc2 got written to which caused the ext2fs on /dev/md0 (which was then part

RE: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Tom Livingston
Florian Lohoff: > > Can you duplicate this using only one of the raid5 sets? I > tried to cause > > A stripe of ONE raid5 doesnt make sense ... If you say so. What I meant of course, is can you duplicate the same behavior using ONLY ONE /dev/mdX "disk" That is, only initialize /dev/md0, mke2fs

Re: stripes of raid5s -> crash

1999-10-16 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 04:11:31PM -0700, Tom Livingston wrote: > Florian Lohoff wrote: > > I did a bit further - Hung the machine - Couldnt log in (All Terms > > hang immediatly) - Tried to reboot and when it hung at > > "Unmounting file..." > > i got a term SysRq- Tand saw many processes stuck i

Re: Problems Creating a Raid 1 Device

1999-10-16 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:41:08PM -0700, Albert E. Whale wrote: > I am running 2.2.12. I have raidtools-0.90-6mdk installed. sigh, it seems that mandrake ships with a raidtool package but not with a raid enabled kernel :( (hint what about adding a distro section to the faq?) get the patches fr

Re: IDE mirroring controller?

1999-10-16 Thread Lauri Tischler
Tom Livingston wrote: > > Software raid might be a better choice for you... For 'real storage' like /usr /var /home /swap etc.. yes. for /boot /root even relatively slow device might do, as long as it is hardware-raid and reliable -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Whut? Whut? Suuurfff.. *

Re: degraded mode notification

1999-10-16 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> Rather than polling the /proc filesystem to see if the system goes into > degraded mode, what are your thoughts on having the kernel exec a command > when it goes degraded? I'm currently working on a kernel-raid and xosview patch to enable it displaying raid member disk status and rebuild/resyn