large ide raid system

2000-01-09 Thread Franc Carter
I am planning to set up a large ide raid5 system. From reading the archives of the list it looks like the way to go is with promise ultra66 cards, making sure that I have good cables. I am hopeing to get a minimum of 8 drives into a machine. My current plan is for the following config:- 37gig IB

Re: HowTo: Upgrade Oldraid-5 -> NewRaid-5

2000-01-09 Thread Martin Bene
At 16:16 07.01.00 +0100, Schackel, Fa. Integrata, ZRZ DA wrote: >1st step was done previously exept for the persistent-superblock > I set it now to 1 >2nd step: run mkraid -- upgrade /dev/md2 > all done fine again. No dataloss at all. This works fine as long as your old raid devices

Re: Trouble with 2.2.13ac3

2000-01-09 Thread James Manning
Heavy snippage/rearrangement for brevity :) [ Sunday, January 9, 2000 ] Jochen Scharrlach wrote: > I recently upgraded one machine from the original RedHat 5.2/kernel > 2.0.36 RAID-stuff (using RAID1) to kernel 2.2.13ac3 with > raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz. The partition table on both disks >

Trouble with 2.2.13ac3

2000-01-09 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, I recently upgraded one machine from the original RedHat 5.2/kernel 2.0.36 RAID-stuff (using RAID1) to kernel 2.2.13ac3 with raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz. The partition table on both disks looks like this: Device BootStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1