overlapping physical units !!?!, please help

2000-01-18 Thread KS
Hi, We recently had an ups failure and some of our servers have crashed. When reviewing the logs on the maschines I have spotted messages like: kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has overlapping physical units with md1! .. kernel: md: serializing resync, md2 has overlapping physical units with m

moving raid disks around

2000-01-18 Thread Michael
I presently have an ide raid 5 system that uses master/slave disks that I'm upgrading to controller/disk. Reading through the various raid threads leads me to believe that changing the position of a disk in the array can cause problems and/or data corruption. Is there a "safe" way to do it since w

Re: kernel patch?

2000-01-18 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, January 16, 2000 ] Prof. Mad Crazy wrote: > I downloaded the patch to use with my 2.2.13 > kernel but there are no instructions as to how I > apply this patch. Or for that matter I don't > know how to apply patches in linux.. What is the > syntax for running this patch? Assuming:

Mixed disks

2000-01-18 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I have a motley set of disks that I'm hoping to use more effeciently via raid. Any tips on this would be greatly appreciated. Right now I have: 2 X 2 Gig SCSI 1 X 3 Gig SCSI 1 X 7 Gig SCSI 1 X 4.5 Gig UW SCSI 2 1 X 20 Gig IDE I don't know the exact type of SCSI for the for 4 drive

Re: ADAPTEC AAA-131U2

2000-01-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Christien Bunting wrote: > > Hello. > Can anyone tell me if there will be support for the ADAPTEC AAA-131U2 > controller ? Nope, never. Adaptec has said that they have no plans to releast the specifications for their "RAID" controllers. ALL RAID functions performed by these controllers are don

Re: AW: AW: IDE RAID controller?

2000-01-18 Thread Raid
There is a beta driver out now but Promise are not supporting it at all. I have found an independant kernel patch that apparently works OK, but you cannot boot off the array. You must use a stand-alone HD for the kernel and then you can use it to mirror other drives. Apparently - I haven't tried