Re: Mysterious RAID-5 failure

2000-01-05 Thread James Manning
[ Wednesday, January 5, 2000 ] Chris R. Brown wrote: > We have had a 108G RAID 5 array (8 * IBM 16G) running rock solid > for months on Linux 2.2.11 using raidtools 0.90.0. We had the array > filled to about 29G when hardware started to hose out. /dev/hdc > started to get weird, and we t

Mysterious RAID-5 failure

2000-01-05 Thread Chris R. Brown
Hello everyone, We have had a 108G RAID 5 array (8 * IBM 16G) running rock solid for months on Linux 2.2.11 using raidtools 0.90.0. We had the array filled to about 29G when hardware started to hose out. /dev/hdc started to get weird, and we took it out, replacing it with another drive.

Re: 2.2.14aa1

2000-01-05 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: >I noticed set_blocksize was left out... so was it included >in 2.2.14 vanilla and there's a diff. source of the problem Yes it was included into 2.2.14. >the linux-raid guy is having using the 2.2.11 patch? hmmm Yes that's the source of the problem. Pe

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
>[ Wednesday, January 5, 2000 ] Brian Kress wrote: >> I think Andrea Arcangeli has a fix for this. Search the lkml >> archives for something on set blocksize. It's an incremental >> patch over RAID 0.90. Yes, if you are using the new raid code with 2.2.14 you should apply also this below patc

Problems after mkraid

2000-01-05 Thread Jason Scharlach
I'm having problem after I enable (mkraid) my raid partition. It's a simple 2 SCSI RAID and the partition that I'm dealing with is identical and unused on both disks. My raidtab entry is this: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock

Re: No spare disk to reconstruct array! -- continuing in degradedmode

2000-01-05 Thread Jesse Nelson
does this work with Linear RAID also ?.. Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Innovation Strategies wrote: > > IS> How can I reconstruct my RAID1? > > If you're using the new RAID code (which you should be), you should be > able to just "raidhotadd /dev/hda5". It will add back into the

Re: IDE RAID controller?

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Grossman
> > Does anyone know of an ATA-66 IDE RAID controller for Linux? I have seen > > the Arco product at http://www.arcoide.com/dupli-pci.htm but it is only > > UDMA/33. > > > > You might look at the RaidZone product line (http://www.raidzone.com) > although it might be more than what you're lookin

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread James Manning
[ Wednesday, January 5, 2000 ] Brian Kress wrote: > I think Andrea Arcangeli has a fix for this. Search the lkml > archives for something on set blocksize. It's an incremental > patch over RAID 0.90. The set_blocksize patches the last of which I see are at kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Andy Biddle
I had the same problem with the 2.2.14pre18 configuration I'm using. I can tell you how to get around it, but not why it happens. (Hey, I'm a newbie!) If you edit the /etc/fstab and tell the system not to dump or e2fsck the raid (set the 5th and 6th columns to 0), everything will boot and moun

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Kress
I think Andrea Arcangeli has a fix for this. Search the lkml archives for something on set blocksize. It's an incremental patch over RAID 0.90. Brian > > Hi, > > I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 together with >kernel > 2.2.14: at least in my configurat

WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Robert Dahlem
Hi, I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 together with kernel 2.2.14: at least in my configuration (two IDE drives with RAID-1, root on /dev/mdx) the kernel panics with "B_FREE inserted into queues" at boot time. This seems to be some kind of a known problem, h

Re: RAID 5 Array fails if first disk is missing

2000-01-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 11:00:29 +0100, you wrote: >At 21:39 04.01.00 GMT, Marc Haber wrote: >>On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:59:50 GMT, you wrote: >>>For a test, I disconnected sda while system power was off and expected >>>the system to come up on the remaining disks. However, the RAID array >>>wasn't detec

removing a raid disk

2000-01-05 Thread Sylvain BARTHELEMY
Hi, is there a way to remove a RAID-1, or to convert the array to an standard ext2fs, without erasing all the files on the disk ? I would like to keep all the files without having to do an entire restore of a previous backup which takes a very long time. Thanks. --- Sylvain BARTHELEMY, Economis

Re: IDE RAID controller?

2000-01-05 Thread John Burton
Raid wrote: > > Does anyone know of an ATA-66 IDE RAID controller for Linux? I have seen > the Arco product at http://www.arcoide.com/dupli-pci.htm but it is only > UDMA/33. > You might look at the RaidZone product line (http://www.raidzone.com) although it might be more than what you're lookin

Re: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-05 Thread Jim Ford
-Original Message- From: Kelina >>Assuming this is yet again the cause of problems, is anyone else getting >>sick of >>stupid distros like Suse and Mandrake that include raidtools-0.90 without >>including support in the kernel? > >I keep replying to these emails, all the users are thankf

Re: Swap on Raid -- revisited

2000-01-05 Thread Luca Berra
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:35:19PM -0800, Michael wrote: > Could the Raid experts revisit a portion of the discussion about swap > on raid. I understand that the use/non-use of buffer space during > reconsturction vs swap creates a problem for swap on raid, however in > my pea-sized brain it ap

Success upgade / olderstyle raid --> newstyle raid

2000-01-05 Thread Schackel, Fa. Integrata, ZRZ DA
Hi Maillist Members, I've done a successfull upgrade for my raid5 TestDrive (9x 7MBytes) from mdtools 0.4x to the aktuell RaidTools 0.90 with persistent-superblock. All auto startup works best. Due to the Mail from Brian a 'few days' ago I was very carefull with that procedure, only going step

Re: raid 5 issue.

2000-01-05 Thread Martin Bene
At 19:59 04.01.00 -, Ron McKelvey wrote: >Out of 4 dirves, I have 2 good drives. I know the data on the 3rd drive is >still good, I just need to force the raid to come back up with no regard to >the event timer and the superblock update time inconsistency. >Can you help me force this thing t

Re: RAID 5 Array fails if first disk is missing

2000-01-05 Thread Martin Bene
At 21:39 04.01.00 GMT, Marc Haber wrote: >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 15:59:50 GMT, you wrote: >>For a test, I disconnected sda while system power was off and expected >>the system to come up on the remaining disks. However, the RAID array >>wasn't detected: >> >>|autodetecting RAID arrays >>|autorun... >

Re: RAID 5 Array fails if first disk is missing

2000-01-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:35:55 +0100, you wrote: >In contrast, raidstart uses the raidtab just for getting ONE device (the >first one) for your raid device. It reads the superblock off this first >devices and uses this info to add the other devices. On my test machine, I have found out something t

Re: Don't try this at home!

2000-01-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:24:22 +0100, you wrote: >make a conf file specifying as failed-disk the drive >you cut the power to, then mkraid, data should be there. Isn't mkraid destructive any more? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc

AW: IDE RAID controller?

2000-01-05 Thread Schackel, Fa. Integrata, ZRZ DA
Hi, how about Promise Raid 0,1 Controller. Have a look @ http://www.promise.com/Products/products.htm#ideraid By, Barney > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Raid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2000 04:03 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: IDE RAID controller?