Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread remo strotkamp
Hi raiders again, > I have been having these sorts of problems for a fair while, my opinon (and > thats all it is) is that raid cant handle much more than 40MB/s, > irespective of your setup, i think theres some other limiting factor > > Ive gotten ~35MB/s with 3 udma33 drives, each its own cha

Re: Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 24, 2000 ] Harald Milz wrote: > The driver didn't make it to the mainstream kernel yet. Actually, it's been in the mainstream kernel for awhile... drivers/scsi/ips.[ch] James -- Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development

Re: Redhat Raid1 setup/usage question

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 24, 2000 ] Jeff Howard wrote: > I'm trying to get software RAID1 to work on an ATX motherboard > with two identical disks using Red Hat 6.1. [snip] > To test the setup I then take the IDE connector off one of the > two disk drives. 1) raidhotadd, raidhotremove 2) The hot-plug/ho

Re: Problems (bugs?) with stock raid 5 code in 2.2.13

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 24, 2000 ] Francesco Potorti` wrote: > I have problems with raid5 spitting error messages now and then, and > making my system unstable. It crashed a couple of times. > > The problem as I see it is: > > - I get occasional non fatal Oops from raid > - I got two fatal Oops, for

resync process doesn't terminate

2000-01-24 Thread W. Scott Wilburn
Feel free to ignore this message if it isn't useful. I have two raid-1 paritions / and /home. I have recently had two unplanned reboots one a power failure, one a real crash (first one in 3 years of using Linux!) Upon reboot, two [raid1syncd] processes appear, as expected. However, they remain

Trying to install Red Hat 6.1 on DPT Raid5

2000-01-24 Thread Jon Preston
We haven't had a chance to recompile! These errors are right after installation. I'm using the DPT install disks for Red Hat 6.X install provided by DPT. I'm installing using I2O card (PM 3754U2 RAID V). It sees the card fine during install, when it asks I choose the Auto probe option, then it com

Re: Trying to install Red Hat 6.1 on DPT Raid5

2000-01-24 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Brecht Samyn wrote: > > Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > > ... > > > Did you by chance try to re-compile the kernel? I'm assuming that > > you're using one of the SmartRAID V cards (which you must be, because > > you said it was an I2O card, right?), then you NEED to patch the kernel > > to compile

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Oops... I meant fresh 2.2.14 kernel.org source. At 10:33 PM 1/23/2000 -0500, David Cooley wrote: >Here's what I get when patching against a fresh 2.2.13-1.3.0 kernel source > > > >Where'd you get your source? >I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 > > >At 11:08 AM 1/24/00 +

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
I just re-downloaded the Kernel source and patch while at work on a SUN box running Solaris 2.6... I'll get this too, but will play with the patching first to see if it was windows trashing the patch on the download. Thanks! Dave At 10:23 PM 1/24/2000 +0800, Gary Allpike wrote: >I have put u

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Allpike
I have put up a pre-patched kernel source at : http://spice.indigo.net.au/linux-2.2.14+raid-2.2.14-B1.tar.bz2 regards Gary Allpike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.au On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: > Oops... I meant fresh 2.2.14 kernel.org source. > > > At 10:33 PM 1/23/2

Redhat Raid1 setup/usage question

2000-01-24 Thread Jeff Howard
I'm trying to get software RAID1 to work on an ATX motherboard with two identical disks using Red Hat 6.1. There's a problem getting the system to function properly after disabling a disk and re-enabling it. Both disks are partitioned identically and two partitions are mirrored on each disk as /

Re: Raid 0.90 for 2.3? (+ RFT!)

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
&don_hat($devils_advocate); [ Monday, January 24, 2000 ] Thomas Waldmann wrote: > > I believe that Ingo realizes that no amount of last-minute cram-testing > > is going to be a real factor, it'll come down to Linus's feeling of > > how well reiser, ext3, and 0.90 raid play together. > > Well, al

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Jan Edler
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 02:16:58PM +, Glenn McGrath wrote: > I have been having these sorts of problems for a fair while, my opinon (and > thats all it is) is that raid cant handle much more than 40MB/s, > irespective of your setup, i think theres some other limiting factor I've seen >60MB/s

Re: Raid 0.90 for 2.3? (+ RFT!)

2000-01-24 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> I believe that Ingo realizes that no amount of last-minute cram-testing > is going to be a real factor, it'll come down to Linus's feeling of > how well reiser, ext3, and 0.90 raid play together. Well, although all of reiser/ext3-fs and raid are very fine stuff, I would definitely vote for SW-R

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: > Here's what I get when patching against a fresh 2.2.13-1.3.0 kernel source > > > > Where'd you get your source? > I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 What is this '-1.3.0'? I don't think this is plain kernel source... If I go

Problems (bugs?) with stock raid 5 code in 2.2.13

2000-01-24 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Hi all, I have problems with raid5 spitting error messages now and then, and making my system unstable. It crashed a couple of times. The problem as I see it is: - I get occasional non fatal Oops from raid - I got two fatal Oops, for which I suspect raid5 - Relatively often, I get error messag

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Glenn McGrath
remo strotkamp wrote: > Hi raider out there, > > > We kept getting error messages under 'heavy' load ( RAID resync, e2fsck, > copying > a 2GB directory tree..) which looked as follows: > > Jan 21 16:42:45 freshkills kernel: hdk: dma_intr: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Jan 21

Re: Trying to install Red Hat 6.1 on DPT Raid5

2000-01-24 Thread Brecht Samyn
Gregory Leblanc wrote: > ... > Did you by chance try to re-compile the kernel? I'm assuming that > you're using one of the SmartRAID V cards (which you must be, because > you said it was an I2O card, right?), then you NEED to patch the kernel > to compile a new one (or download the pre-compiled

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparissonUDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Andy Poling
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, remo strotkamp wrote: > did anybody get the above mentioned errors and crashes even with short enough > cables and no HD-cases? For a short period of time (1 day) I ran one UDMA66 disks (20GB Seagate Barracuda with an IWILL HPT366 controller) with the cable supplied with

Trouble with 2.2.13ac3 - update

2000-01-24 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, last Friday I updated the buggy machine to 2.2.14 (B1) - until then the problem with the "attempt to access beyond end of device" causing "only one disk left and IO error." happened three times. On one occasion the backup (tar) croaked about one file "shrunk by" about 6MB (the file had 7MB)

Re: Raid 0.90 for 2.3? (+ RFT!)

2000-01-24 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:43:38PM +0100, Holger Kiehl wrote: > ...[snip]... > > Here is my original post from 17th January: > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > here is the first alpha version of the '2.4 RAID merge' patch against > > pre4-2.3.40: > > > > http://www.red

Re: cdrecord crash, raid+SMP+IDE related?

2000-01-24 Thread dr. Eduard Werner (Edward Wornar)
Dnja Mon, 24 Jan 2000 Roland Roberts pisa¹e: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I have a new system on which I have just installed RedHat 6.1 and am > using RAID 1 on /boot with RAID 5 on everything else. I have an IDE > CD-RW (Memorex 1622). I've been looking through old messages and see

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, January 23, 2000 ] David Cooley wrote: > Since I put his patch in /usr/src I used patch -p0 raid-2.2.14-b1 This is the 3rd reported problem with the 2.2.14 patch and the first two were both bad downloads (both netscape I believe, strangely enough). Perhaps try using something like "wge

Re: Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, January 23, 2000 ] John Leach wrote: > Does anyone know if hardware raid is supported on the IBM Netfinity ? Some Netfinity's come with 2 Adaptec AIC-7895 controllers on the motherboard. If it's a RAID controller on the M/B then it's the ServeRAID 3H controller. > The Red Hat 6.1 cert

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
At 08:06 PM 1/23/00 -0800, Michael Robinton wrote: > > Anyone successfully gotten raid 5 working with the new 2.2.14 kernel? > > I downloaded the 2.2.14 kernel source tree and installed it, then > > downloaded Mingo's 2.2.14 raid patch. The patch appeared to work fine on > > the first few hunks,

Re: rackmountable cases as well as RAID5 performance comparisson UDMA33 vs 66...

2000-01-24 Thread Jan Edler
We set up some machines pretty much the same as you: rackmount, with an ASUS P3B-F mainboard, 4 promise ultra-66 cards, and 8 Seagate ST328040A drives within hot-swap boxes. We used a Sliger case (C489-0814-PX-BK), in which everything fits, but it is a bit tight to route the cables, even using th

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread Michael Robinton
> Anyone successfully gotten raid 5 working with the new 2.2.14 kernel? > I downloaded the 2.2.14 kernel source tree and installed it, then > downloaded Mingo's 2.2.14 raid patch. The patch appeared to work fine on > the first few hunks, then failed miserably on the last 100 or so Yes, I con

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Here's what I get when patching against a fresh 2.2.13-1.3.0 kernel source Where'd you get your source? I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 At 11:08 AM 1/24/00 +0800, Gary Allpike wrote: [root@bigdaddy src]# patch -p0 -i raid-2.2.14 patching file `linux/init/main.c'

RE: Welcome to linux-raid

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Clay, I downloaded the 2.2.14 source and the patch. Patch applies fine at first, then fails miserably in the last 75-100 hunks. downloaded again just in case... same thing. Compiled the kernel anyway and no go. Won't recognize my raid and it appears the same as the 0.90 tools without the pa

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Where'd you get your source? I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 At 11:08 AM 1/24/00 +0800, Gary Allpike wrote: >David, > >I think you may have a kernel that has had other patches applied to it. > >2.2.14 and the associated patch worked fine for me, the patch applied wit

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread Gary Allpike
David, I think you may have a kernel that has had other patches applied to it. 2.2.14 and the associated patch worked fine for me, the patch applied with no rejects. regards Gary Allpike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.au On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: > Anyone successfu

cdrecord crash, raid+SMP+IDE related?

2000-01-24 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a new system on which I have just installed RedHat 6.1 and am using RAID 1 on /boot with RAID 5 on everything else. I have an IDE CD-RW (Memorex 1622). I've been looking through old messages and seen comments on problems with IDE+SMP for RAID. The RAID

RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Anyone successfully gotten raid 5 working with the new 2.2.14 kernel? I downloaded the 2.2.14 kernel source tree and installed it, then downloaded Mingo's 2.2.14 raid patch. The patch appeared to work fine on the first few hunks, then failed miserably on the last 100 or so hunks. Tried a comp

Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread John Leach
Does anyone know if hardware raid is supported on the IBM Netfinity ? The Red Hat 6.1 certification page does not mention any Raid options for the Netfinity which surprises me. Is it a Perc card or an IBM card? Any known problems? Thanks in advance, John Leach http://www.bosware.com.au Melbourne,

2.2.14 sparc...

2000-01-24 Thread David Cooley
Hi All, Am trying to upgrade the Kernel on my Ultra2 running RH 6.1 It appears the redhat kernel source has part of Mingo's raid patch for 2.2.14 applied, but not all. I then downloaded a complete tarball of the 2.2.14 kernel source from kernel.org and mingo's patch appeared to apply at first,