Re: mkraid problem

1999-12-30 Thread David Cooley
At 01:54 AM 12/31/1999 +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > > > > You need to patch the kernel for the 0.9x raidtools. I believe Mandrake's > > kernels are still at 0.4x and lower for kernel support, with 0.9x > raidtools > > included (why they don't pre-patch the kernel source to support the > > raidtool

Re: "new style" raid and devfs?

1999-12-30 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 02:40:42PM -0500, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > My life has now been further complicated by the fact that I'm running > devfs, which makes extensive changes to drivers/block/md.c. The new-style > raid patches to md.c fail miserably. it ain't difficult to fix, jus' boring

Re: mkraid problem

1999-12-30 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 01:46:13PM -0500, David Cooley wrote: > At 12:07 PM 12/30/1999 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm running Mandrake 6.1 with a couple of 9GB IBM U2 SCSI Drives off of > >an Adaptec 7890 controller. I've been trying for a while now (a couple > >of days) to get several of the partition

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

1999-12-30 Thread Jesse Nelson
I tried out Mandrake 7.0 (oxygen) beta looks like they have a patched kernel with 0.9x raidtools and a groovy gui for adding devices call diskdrake   took me 5 minutes to setup 3 18GB disks for linear..   Linux has come a long way indeed!   Stephen Waters wrote: are you using 0.9x raid? i am, and

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation - more

1999-12-30 Thread Jesse Nelson
I am seing the samproblems with lineaar mode and RedHat6.1/Mandrake 6.1  going to try Mandrake 7.0-beta     Wojciech Ku¶ wrote: re-hi! (this is a small addition to my prev. mail) I forgot... /etc/raidtab - isn't it useful to know? ;) Here it goes: raiddev /dev/md8     raid-level 

Re: Silent failure during attampted RAID1 creation

1999-12-30 Thread Stephen Waters
are you using 0.9x raid? i am, and my raidtab manpage says the value is in KB. also, the HOWTO says it's in KB: http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-4.html#ss4.8 -s Andy Poling wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, [ISO-8859-2] Wojciech Ku¶ wrote: > > raiddev /dev/md8 >

"new style" raid and devfs?

1999-12-30 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
'ello again, In a previous post I reported problems getting a previously working RAID configuration to work after putting a new kernel in place. It turns out that my problem was caused by the fact that (a) I hadn't applied the RAID patches to my kernel because (b) I had no idea they had alread

Re: mkraid problem

1999-12-30 Thread David Cooley
At 12:07 PM 12/30/1999 -0500, you wrote: >I'm running Mandrake 6.1 with a couple of 9GB IBM U2 SCSI Drives off of >an Adaptec 7890 controller. I've been trying for a while now (a couple >of days) to get several of the partitions on the drives to be RAID-1 . >However when I try and run mkraid I ge

mkraid problem

1999-12-30 Thread Jason Scharlach
I'm running Mandrake 6.1 with a couple of 9GB IBM U2 SCSI Drives off of an Adaptec 7890 controller. I've been trying for a while now (a couple of days) to get several of the partitions on the drives to be RAID-1 . However when I try and run mkraid I get the following: DESTRO

md stopped working?

1999-12-30 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
I recently started playing with software RAID on my 2.2.13 system. After ditching a faulty scsi disk things were going swimmingly. However, in between some kernel compiles, I've managed to break the software raid system... I'm running 2.2.13 with devfs (although the problem also manifests itsel