RE: Cookbook way to set up raid1

2000-02-28 Thread Gregory Leblanc
I commited the latest version of Jakob's Software-RAID HOWTO to CVS yesterday, it should be available as Software-RAID-0.90-HOWTO as soon as the next updates get uploaded to the LDP site. We're behind, but working on it. Greg > -Original Message- > From: James Manning [mailto:[EM

max 12 disks limit

2000-02-28 Thread eldon
I've been told (by Jakob) that the limit of 12 disks per md device is just a typo in the code. I'm trying to make a 14-drive linear array. I tried changing MAX_REAL from 12 to 14 in md_k.h (and then even recompiled raidtools) but mkraid still complains about the limit being 12. is there any wa

Re: Cookbook way to set up raid1

2000-02-28 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, February 28, 2000 ] Brian Lavender wrote: > The software-RAID Howto is very _unclear_. Did you read this one? The LDP one is ancient (long story) http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/

RE: AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 (428)

2000-02-28 Thread Kristofer_Danner
read the readme at the AMI site. echo "scsi-add-single-device 1 2 3 4" > /proc/scsi/scsi where 1234 is the host/channel/ID/LUN -Original Message- From: Kevin Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 1:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200

ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-28 Thread George Liu
Hi This is a simple question but is difficult for me. I want to install a bootable-RAID 1 for 2 SCSI hard drive in the same controller. The kernel is 2.2.12 accompanying OS Redhat 6.1. Here is my RAID plan disk partition mount pt. sizedevice 1

Cookbook way to set up raid1

2000-02-28 Thread Brian Lavender
I have a virgin system. I have two 9 Gig drives and Debian GNU/Linux. I want to create raid1 of /var and /home What's the best way to go about this? The software-RAID Howto is very _unclear_. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 (428)

2000-02-28 Thread Kevin Wood
Hey there guys, got a question for you. I just received one of these cards and it is basically a dual channel raid system. The problem I am having is that RH6.1 recognizes the first drive and only the first drive. Here is the config. Dual Channel Controller. Channel 1 Contains 2 - 9.1GB dr

Questions of RAID 1 chunk size

2000-02-28 Thread Tan Keng Hong
> I have been trying to configure RAID 1 on both my disks and I am a > little confused over this chunk size. Does it affect the performance of RAID 1? If I have set 4k chunk at the /etc/raidtab and then mk2fs -b 4096 /dev/md0 , does this mean that the md driver will write one block of data to eac

make raid and retain data

2000-02-28 Thread Brian Lavender
I have two disks in my machine: sda and sdb I installed Debian GNU/Linux on sda with sda10 as my /home partition. sdb is purely for raid uses. I created the equivalent partions on sdb as are on sda. Is it possible to turn this sda10 into /dev/md0 without tar-ing the data and putting it in a tempo

DPT SmartRaidV Millennium driver in kernel

2000-02-28 Thread Brecht Samyn
Did anyone succeed in compiling the DPT driver for the SmartRaid V in the kernel (not as module)? Brecht -- -- Brecht Samyn tel. ++32 56 246 264 Systeemgroep fax. ++32 56 246 999 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kor

persistent error in drivers/block/cpqarray.h

2000-02-28 Thread Alexandre Hautequest
Hi all. This error was stucked in since raid-0.90-something-in-november-last IIRC, and now w/ tigher integration into official kernel tree, it should be corrected (actually it should be corrected months ago, but...) The location of md.h is not under , but inside . Is a little thing, since no