Re: RAID and Ultra66

1999-11-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 06:37:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [clip] If the controller is built right, there is some potential for a performance increase. The idea is to have more than one drive simultaneously reading into it's buffer (they run

Re: RAID and Ultra66

1999-11-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 05:55:24PM +, Darren Nickerson wrote: ... Thanks for the reply Jakob. :-P I used to be the same . . . now I'm bitter and twisted. Well, mebbe just twisted. ;) ... How ``bad'' is the performance ? It was at one point about 4MB/s . . . I nuked that kernel

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
Lyndon David schrieb: Hi, I am working with the 2.2.13 kernel to set up a very simple situation where the partitions are just mirrored across two ide disks raid1. which version of raid do you use? the 2.2.13 includes as i can remember 0.36 of raid and on

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
Jason Clifford schrieb: On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Thomas Stegbauer wrote: which version of raid do you use? the 2.2.13 includes as i can remember 0.36 of raid and on ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha are only 0.90-patches for 2.2.11 which does not apply to 2.2.13 :-(

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread Piete Brooks
Exec summary: will raid1 code cause read error sectors to be re-vectored ? Full gory details: I am having problems with some new disks, in that sectors are going bad. I kind of didn't expect this on `new' disks, but maybe I'm just not used to having so many sectors ! So far, the problems

how to hotadd a spare?

1999-11-29 Thread Markus Schulte
is there a way to hatadd a spare to a running raid5? markus -- Digital Online Media GmbH (we like to be called DOM) Bismarck Str. 60 50672 Köln phone: +49 221 951680 fax: +49 221 951688 web: www.dom.de mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to hotadd a spare?

1999-11-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Markus Schulte wrote: MS is there a way to hatadd a spare to a running raid5? After you get the box to recognize the disk, I'm fairly certain you just do a raidhotadd. It'll auto-add as a spare. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "These periods are always 15 minutes shorter

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread AndInc
In a message dated 99-11-29 06:03:16 EST, you write: The report was: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 5, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 7d a6 c0 00 00 80 00 Current error sd08:50: sense key Medium Error Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error scsidisk I/O

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread Johannes Niess
Piete Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Exec summary: will raid1 code cause read error sectors to be re-vectored ? Full gory details: I am having problems with some new disks, in that sectors are going bad. I kind of didn't expect this on `new' disks, but maybe I'm just not used to having

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] Y Do *NOT* say Y here ! If you say Y, the stuff that the patch should add will be REMOVED and the stuff a patch should remove will be added again (reverse patch = make a patch undone). Thomas -- Thomas Waldmann ("Computer nach

Re: raid-1 and raid-5 performance: odd

1999-11-29 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:58:42AM -0500, Remo Strotkamp wrote: Hi there, first of all thanx for all the replies concerning my previous mail. second: hi jakob and here are the single mode bonnie results... Thanks :) I have done some basic benchmarking in single user mode, and got

Re: about bad blocks

1999-11-29 Thread AndInc
Hi Piete, I cannot see "03/11" anywhere -- did you reverse map "MEDIUM ERROR" ? Yes, long years of painful experience. 03/11 is reported by the drive when read retries are exhausted and a sector is not readable. SO: Read (10) 00 00 7d a6 c0 00 00 80 00 ... + ?1 ?2 ?3 ++ ++

Re: raid-1 and raid-5 performance: odd

1999-11-29 Thread Mika Kuoppala
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Jakob Østergaard wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:58:42AM -0500, Remo Strotkamp wrote: Hi there, first of all thanx for all the replies concerning my previous mail. second: hi jakob and here are the single mode bonnie results... expect the raid1 beeing lots

Linear / Mirroring

1999-11-29 Thread Brian C. Huffman
All, The current setup that I have is a 2.2.11 kernel with the 19990824 raidtools and patches. I have setup 2 linear md's and then a mirror of those two as follows: [ /etc/raidtab ] raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level linear nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 8

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:23:34 +0100 From: vanliesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the following configuration: Mainboard : Supermicro P6SBA Memory : 128MB SDRAM SCSI-controller : Symbios 875 RAID-controller : Mylex eXtreme RAID DAC1164P Harddisk: 3 * Seagate

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Maarten van Lieshout
No, I just do a reboot of the system. What I do is take out a harddisk, wait for about 1 minute and see if the deamon detects that there is a harddrive missing. When it does, I insert another disk and wait for another minute till it is powered up. Then I issue the rebuild command. Maarten

RE: Linear / Mirroring

1999-11-29 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
Ummm... I hate to sound like a broken record, but try the latest stable kernel version. 2.2.11 had file system issues that were exacerbated by RAID situations. Get the latest stable -ac and you shouldn't have to patch... -Original Message- From: Brian C. Huffman [mailto:[EMAIL

tiotest

1999-11-29 Thread James Manning
tiotest is a nice start to what I would like to see: a replacement for bonnie... While stripping out the character-based stuff from bonnie would bring it closer to what I'd like to see, threading would be a bit of a pain so starting with tiotest as a base might not be a bad idea if people are

bonnie.

1999-11-29 Thread tcl
hi. sorry if this is a stupid question, but where can i find that "bonnie" benchmarking program? i couldn't find any mention of it in the raidtools docs/howtos/etc, nor anywhere else i looked really. thanks for any info. -tcl.

Re: bonnie.

1999-11-29 Thread Darren Nickerson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: sorry if this is a stupid question, but where can i find that "bonnie" benchmarking program? i couldn't find any mention of it in the raidtools docs/howtos/etc, nor anywhere else i looked really. http://www.textuality.com/bonnie/download.html -dpn

RE: bonnie.

1999-11-29 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
A search on www.freshmeat.net or www.linuxapps.com should turn it up, but it doesn't. The build I use is available from the builder's WWW page at: http://people.redhat.com/dledford/benchmark.html It's all RPM format, but if you need DEB or TGZ packages, I'm sure they're out there too. Hope

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Theron J. Lewis
I ran in to a similar problem. It turned out to be an overheating problem. When I added another 6 fans to the cabnet, the problem went away. It could also be a problem with the new RAID Driver as I am running an older version. My configuration: Mainboard : Supermicro P6DBE

another possible tiotest improvement

1999-11-29 Thread James Manning
I find varying the block size *very* interesting :) James -- Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development --- tiobench.sh.origMon Nov 29 17:53:16 1999 +++ tiobench.sh Mon Nov 29 18:04:14 1999 @@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ exit 1; fi -if [ $# != 2 ] ; then -echo

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Jon Doyle
perhaps ASUS? Jon R. Doyle Systems Administrator Document Solutions, Inc. 1611 Telegraph Avenue Ste. 1010 Oakland, Ca. 94612 510-986-0250 "Theron J. Lewis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/29/99 02:02PM I ran in to a similar problem. It turned out to be an overheating problem. When I added another 6

RE: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-29 Thread Bruno Prior
I configured sda3 and sdb3 to a raid 1(mirror) with no problem. Now I want to change the configuration to raid0, so I edit the /etc/raidtab file, issue mkraid --force /dev/md0, everything seems fine, but when "raidstart" and check the status, the raid is still running in old raid1.

Could a raid partition house and extended partition ?

1999-11-29 Thread Glenn McGrath
This may be a silly question, but if a multi-disk device is just a bunch-o-disks working together to create one virtual disk, then is there any reason why a single multi-disk device couldnt house multiple partitions e.g. via msdos extended partition Obviously there would have to be software to

Good Information on Linux/RAID

1999-11-29 Thread Bryan Batchelder
I managed to get a nice 14GB array up using RedHat 6.0 and piecing together information from man pages and web sitesbut now I am wondering what the preferred documentation set is for the latest RAID tools. The stuff in the LDP is pretty old looking. I would like to find out information

newbie question about patches

1999-11-29 Thread Lyndon David
Hi, Sorry for the stupid newby question but here goes. I have downloaded the kernel 2.2.13 and it has raid stuff in it and it is working fine. In ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/ there are kernel patches. How do these patches differ from the raid code that is already in the

Re: Good Information on Linux/RAID

1999-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bryan http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO and my collection... http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid chunksize...etc http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/Docs/raid_chunksize.txt chunk size and stripping comparson