Re: raidstop --all doesn't do its job

1999-11-08 Thread Mike Black
Turns out the the usage info for raidstop is bogus. raidstop does NOT read the raidtab -- it wants you to be specific about what you want to stop: /* * stop is special, we want to get it done * without parsing the config */ if ((func == raidstop) || (func == raidstop_ro))

Re: raidstop --all doesn't do its job

1999-11-08 Thread Marc Haber
In ka.lists.linux.raid, you wrote: Turns out the the usage info for raidstop is bogus. raidstop does NOT read the raidtab -- it wants you to be specific about what you want to stop: Maybe the usage info should be updated for raidstop?? The bogus usage info should be fixed, indeed ;-) However,

Re: LOTS OF BAD STUFF in raid0: raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 is unstable

1999-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
i/o buffers that just gets exacerbated by other problems, heavy I/O, cache problems (like overheated CPU), cables, etc. Overheating CPU's corrupt memory, fail cache coherency and do other things of that nature. On an x86 box an overheated CPU is a loose cannon. It can cause almost anything

RE: superblock Q/clarification

1999-11-08 Thread Gerrish, Robert
David Cooley wrote: When I first set up my Raid 5, I made the partitions with Fdisk, and started /dev/hdc1 at block 0, the end was the end of the disk (single partition per drive except /dev/hdc5 is type whole disk). It ran fine until I rebooted, when it came up and said there was no

RE: ide and hot swap

1999-11-08 Thread Gerrish, Robert
Seth Vidal wrote: We've got DLT's doing backups right now and we're conceiving that it might be cheaper to setup a system with 2 or 3 linear striped or raid 0 34+gig ide disks and have 2 sets of these disks that we swap out week to week for backups - rather than spend a fortune in

RE: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-08 Thread Gerrish, Robert
From: Jakob Østergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:56 PM To: Linux RAID mailing list Subject: Re: [new release] raidreconf utility My only experience with LVM is from HPUX. I could create the equivalent of RAID-0 there using LVM only, and it is my

RE: ide and hot swap

1999-11-08 Thread Seth Vidal
Price wise, this seems like a good approach. If it were my system, I would be concerned about disaster recovery. I have been a believer for a long time in tape rotation and offsite storage. Also, you are risking losing 4 weeks worth of data; a full backup at least weekly and incremental

Offtopic: LVD U2W drives on UW SCSI-3 controller

1999-11-08 Thread cprice
Hi; Sorry about the somewhat offtopic question, but I have a supplier of mine trying to tell me that LVD U2W dries will work on my Symbios 53C875 UW SCSI-3 controller. Will LVD U2W drives work on a UW controller? I thought that LVD was quite different than other forms

Re: Offtopic: LVD U2W drives on UW SCSI-3 controller

1999-11-08 Thread jlewis
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about the somewhat offtopic question, but I have a supplier of mine trying to tell me that LVD U2W dries will work on my Symbios 53C875 UW SCSI-3 controller. Will LVD U2W drives work on a UW controller? I thought that LVD was

Re: Offtopic: LVD U2W drives on UW SCSI-3 controller

1999-11-08 Thread Major'Trips'
I have an LVD on a UW controler, but the drive itself is selectable between single-ended and double-ended operation. I was really not aware of any drives capable of detecting the bus and auto-configuring itself .. shrug .. who knows. On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:00:28AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]