lilo and striped drives

1999-12-09 Thread Janne Oinonen
Can it be done with lilo (version 21 that came with Slackware 7.0)? Had to move /boot and kernels to /dev/sdc6, a small leftover in the end of a FAT16-drive and lilo installs and boots beautifully that way. Root is /dev/md0, sda1+sdb1 RAID-0 (working great and fast, thanks guys) but as long as

Strange things with raid.

1999-12-09 Thread christophe leroy
What does this means ? Where is the overlapping ? Christophe (Please CC answers to me, I'm not subscribed to the list) Dec 9 10:14:11 localhost kernel: md: serializing resync, md1 has overlapping ph ysical units with md2! Dec 9 10:14:11 localhost kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has

Re: Strange things with raid.

1999-12-09 Thread Piete Brooks
What does this means ? It would thrash the disk heads to keep moving from one partition to another between each disk operation, so when re-synching disks, it ensures that only one thread is using a particular disk (spindle) at a time. Where is the overlapping ? Not really overlapping,

Re: RAID0 performance odditity

1999-12-09 Thread Robert
T just tried making the same change on my system to see if it would help me. But the symptons stayed the same. If a drive is attached to IDE3 or IDE4 channels, the system locks up during bootup. One difference I am using the BE-6 motherboard. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Wed, 8 Dec 1999,

Re: RAID0 performance odditity

1999-12-09 Thread Robert
Thanks for writing back, Michael. Yes it complied cleanly, and I have a short script that copies over the new kernal and runs lilo for me, so I don't have to remember all the steps...:) I have written Andre a number of times providing him with details about my problem, I have also added some

Re: RAID0 performance odditity

1999-12-09 Thread Michael Trainor
Interesting. I never had lockups during boot, only during heavy IDE load. Just a stupid question: you did make sure that the change was cleanly compiled in and installed and all? I assume you probably did, but I've missed steps before when not really watching what I was doing and sat

Oops while playing with raidhotadd et al on 2.2.13-ac3

1999-12-09 Thread Andreas Trottmann
Hi! I setup a system with RAID0 using 2.2.13-ac3 and raidtools 0.90.990824 (the current debian potato package, compiled for slink). My main goal in building this raid is stability and fault-tolerance. And indeed, the Linux software RAID system looks very promising -- I just found one problem.

Re: RE: Help on root fs using raid-0

1999-12-09 Thread Jim Ford
Bruno Prior wrote on 3/12/99 9:39: This is a little unorthodox, but try the following Thanks for the clear explanation. I gave it a try, but it didn't work. It may be because I used the 'old' raid as compiled into the standard 2.2.13 kernel. I've been very confused by the various raid docs

RAID 1 errors? Now What?

1999-12-09 Thread Aaron Bush
I'm running RAID 1. Here is a portion of my messages log file: = Dec 2 09:56:25 mislxsrv kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Dec 2 09:56:25 mislxsrv kernel: 08:05: rw=0, want=333199165, limit=6144831 Dec 2 09:56:25 mislxsrv kernel: raid1: Disk failure on sda5, disabling

Re: RAID 1 errors? Now What?

1999-12-09 Thread David Cooley
At 11:18 AM 12/9/1999 -0500, you wrote: == Now what? Does this mean that the disk is bad? I have other RAID 1's living on the same two disks and they have not slipped into degraded mode. Should i just try to raidhotadd the device back into the the RAID and see if it corrects itself? Thanks

HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different

1999-12-09 Thread Lyndon David
Hi, I am in a bit of a pickle. I am just setting up a system and have put in two identical disks as hda and hdc. fdisk sees hda as having 255 heads and 63 sectors but hdc as having 16 heads and 63 sectors ! Now this gives me a big problem in that I bought two identical drives so that I could

Re: RAID 1 errors? Now What?

1999-12-09 Thread James Manning
[ Thursday, December 9, 1999 ] David Cooley wrote: It could be a drive problem, but it could also be that since data is spread across the drives of an array, with only 2 drives, removing one removed half the data. Without at least 3 drives making up the array, it has nothing to

Performance?

1999-12-09 Thread Tim Niemueller
Hi there, I want to build up an array of four IBM DJNA 15 GB harddisks on an Abit PE6 with ATA/66 Controller. The array should be RAID-5, what so you know about the performance? I mean in general not only for this specific constellation? Is the source stable and usable for production?

Re: Performance?

1999-12-09 Thread Mathieu ARNOLD
Tim Niemueller wrote: Hi there, I want to build up an array of four IBM DJNA 15 GB harddisks on an Abit PE6 with ATA/66 Controller. The array should be RAID-5, what so you know about the performance? I mean in general not only for this specific constellation? Is the source stable and

Some unidentified problems with mkraid (fwd)

1999-12-09 Thread Joern Krebs
hi everybody, I have a problem with creating a new RAID-1 array. Sry, little mistake: This is the right version. The other one was before I partitioned hda... - Failure: handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0:

Re: Performance?

1999-12-09 Thread Randy Winch
Tim Niemueller wrote: Hi there, I want to build up an array of four IBM DJNA 15 GB harddisks on an Abit PE6 with ATA/66 Controller. The array should be RAID-5, what so you know about the performance? I mean in general not only for this specific constellation? Is the source stable and

Re: HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different

1999-12-09 Thread Stephen Walton
I had _exactly_ the same problem. The only way I found around it was to go into the BIOS and manually set both disks to NORMAL instead of LBA. Attempting to set both to LBA didn't work. This is with RedHat 6.0 with the 2.2.5-22 kernel. Perhaps this is fixed in a later kernel? -- Stephen

Some unidentified problems with mkraid

1999-12-09 Thread Joern Krebs
hi everybody, I have a problem with creating a new RAID-1 array. Software: SuSE 6.3 with Std.Kernel 2.2.13-SMP (non-SuSE) Hardware: Abit BP6 with 2x400MHz Celeron (SMP-Kernel) 2x 15 GB IBM DJNA (IDE) hda: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512

Re: HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different

1999-12-09 Thread David Robinson
Check your bios settings.. See if one is in LBA mode,etc.. Just ask you bios to autodetect the drives. I believe the bios has three ways of accessing drives.. each way makes the harddrive report different heads/sectors/etc. David Robinson. Lyndon David wrote: Hi, I am in a bit of a

Re: Performance?

1999-12-09 Thread Randy Winch
Remo Strotkamp wrote: As far as I remember you should use sizes at least 4 times what you have as ram, for bonnie. As you have 1gig of ram (methinks that is cool, methinks want this too), and the max size for bonnies is 2gigs, you are in a certain dilemma here. Have you reduced the

Re: Performance?

1999-12-09 Thread Robert
Tim, I have been trying for months to get the ATA66 channels to work on an ABIT BE6 motherboard with no success. At the moment, despite trying numerous kernal versions, numerous patch combinations and most recently two different bios version, my system still locks up on boot when a drive is

Re: HELP-- identical disks but fdisk sees them different

1999-12-09 Thread KS
I had exactly the same experience with 2.2.13ac3 kernel, only setting disks to NORMAL made fdisk to see them as two identical disks. Does this influence the speed of disks in any way ? On piĀ±, 10 gru 1999, Stephen Walton wrote: I had _exactly_ the same problem. The only way I found around it