Re: Help on root fs using raid-0

1999-12-02 Thread David Cunningham
I've done this on raid-1. I assume the procedure for raid-0 will be the same. Here is how I do it. I'm not guaranteeing this is the best way: First I'll make some assumptions. First you would like to boot to your root md0 filesystem. Second, you have a kernel that is new enough to support bo

Re: problems with RAID fs

1999-12-02 Thread Terry Ewing
One important thing I forgot. I copied these files by using cp -R on a big tree. Afterwards I did a diff and saw quite a few files were not exactly the same as their original. I removed the new tree and recopied. This time around I did not get the same listing from diff and the corruption w

problems with RAID fs

1999-12-02 Thread Terry Ewing
I am using software RAID-5 on 3 IBM SCSI-UW drives and am experiencing a problem. I have moved all files from /www to /usr/raid/www, but diff is reporting many of the files to be changed. All the file sizes are correct, but it appears that often a character is swapped for another in the copy

Re: scsi channels (Was: ide hardware raid)

1999-12-02 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > they have scsi-2 raid cards from adaptec... > 1-channel($430) and 3-channel($650) raid controllers.. > > a dumb question... what are the channels used for ??? scsi channels are different scsi busses, you use them for load balancing.

Help on root fs using raid-0

1999-12-02 Thread Jim Ford
I'm stuck! I've got two 1gig disks that I want to concatenate together using raid-0 and mount as / with Slackware 7 installed.I've created a minimal installation on a 60meg partition and used this to create a full installation on a raid-0 partition - /dev/md0, which I can mount and umount on

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Steve Cooper
RAIDZONE www.raidzone.com is a full function RAID solution thatruns under Linux (and Windows NT) using IDE (Ultra ATA) disk drives.    RAIDZONE features include:   1) Full Hotswap/HotSpare support. RAIDZONE includes SMARTCANenclosures that provide complete monitoring and control of individu

HPT366 prevents boot on Abit BE-6 (probably not raid related)

1999-12-02 Thread Robert
Upon further investigation, I added some debug printk() statements. Assuming buffering is not confusing the issue, it looks like the machine is calling this subroutine, but the subroutine never returns; ide_config_drive_speed(drive, speed); The parms are set to these values when

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Seth Vidal
check out www.zero-d.com They make an eide internal uw scsi external raid box that looks pretty cool. -sv

HPT366 prevents boot on Abit BE-6 (probably not raid related)

1999-12-02 Thread Robert
I am still trying to get my HPT366 channels to work on my ABIT BE6 motherboard. I really appreciate the emails I have gotten to date, but there is still no joy. Following in the footsteps of Tim Moore, I upgraded to 2.2.13 with patches raid0145-19990824-2.2.11, and ide.2.2.13.1999.patch appl

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Antonio Marchisio
Terry Ewing wrote: > Hello, > I'm an administrator in a co-location facility and recently we had a > customer come in to replace a raid card. The only catch was the RAID card > was IDE. This was on an NT box, but I was wondering: > > 1) what IDE RAID cards are out there now. What is know