Re: AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 (428)

2000-02-29 Thread Mark Plaksin
Kevin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. We fixed a

Adaptec RAID

2000-02-29 Thread Andrew G Milne
Hi there, I have an Adaptec 4-channel raid controller. I have just got the drivers from Dell for this card and it turns out that they have been statically compiled for a specific version of the kernel. I need to use the raid array as a boot device (which the driver allows) but I don't have a

Re: RAID list

2000-02-29 Thread David Cooley
At 06:03 AM 2/29/2000, Manuel Fernandes wrote: Hi All Sorry that I am bothering you about this but I am a little lost and a little desperate. I have an new AMD athlon + RAID 0 on it. We have been using raid0 since about 1996 or 1997 and I have just changed the setting to use the new RAID which

Re: mkraid problem

2000-02-29 Thread Henrik Johansson
With the possibility of beeing wrong, I would assume you would need to patch the kernel for 2.2.14 if you want to use raidtools-0.90. Check out the patch at: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1 Regards Henrik On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, zharn2 wrote: ok ill looked and

Chunk and Stripe for RAID1

2000-02-29 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
I've run about 100 hours of benchmarks for the last days, and I'll say the following: chunksize is probably meaningless on raid1 if my data is anything close to consistent, and so (or therefore?) is supplying -Rstripe to mke2fs. The block-size, however, is 100% significant. I've got the simple

Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
/proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller Firmware Version: 4.06-0-08, Channels: 1, Memory Size: 4MB PCI Bus: 0, Device: 10,

tiotest 0.21/0.24

2000-02-29 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
James, I've run a whole truckload of benchmarks on raid1 with varying chunksizes on three different kernels, and on a plain disk. I'm about to publish some of the stuff, but I'm wondering very hard why is it that the readbalancing test showed _awful_ numbers on tiotest 0.21 and great numbers on

Re: raid5: bug: stripe-bh_new[4]

2000-02-29 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: 0.90. Every server has a Raid-5 array consisting of 5 large IBM scsi disks + one spare. It works like a charm, extremely fast and no trouble at all with How fast are the IBM disks? We're using Quantums here and they suck! Software-RAID during

Re: strange syslog messages about overlapping physical units

2000-02-29 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Peter Pregler wrote: All is fine but during reconstruction I get a few syslog-messages that I simply cannot believe are true. The message in question are: Feb 12 11:31:52 kludge kernel: md: serializing

SV: raid5: bug: stripe-bh_new[4]

2000-02-29 Thread Johan Ekenberg
0.90. Every server has a Raid-5 array consisting of 5 large IBM scsi disks + one spare. It works like a charm, extremely fast and no trouble at all with How fast are the IBM disks? We're using Quantums here and they suck! I haven't done any actual, documented testing, but they're the

RE: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: Thomas Rottler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:43 AM To: Linux RAID Subject: Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1 On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0600, George Liu wrote: This is a simple question but is

Re: Chunk and Stripe for RAID1

2000-02-29 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: I've got the simple scripts I used to do the benchmarks here and if somebody wants to have a look, feel free. go ahead and mail them to the list as attachments. Might make for more scripts to shove into tiotest/funnyscripts/ James

still get max 12 disks limit

2000-02-29 Thread eldon
i tried this but mkraid still gives the same error of "a maximum of 12 disks is supported." i set MD_SB_DISKS_WORDS to 480 to give me 15 disks. does anyone have more detailed instructions? looking in parser.c i see where that should have worked, but i guess i'm missing something. it parses down

Re: tiotest 0.21/0.24

2000-02-29 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: James, I've run a whole truckload of benchmarks on raid1 with varying chunksizes on three different kernels, and on a plain disk. I'm about to publish some of the stuff, but I'm wondering very hard why is it that the readbalancing

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: /proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller Firmware Version:

persistent superblock in HOWTO / raidtools

2000-02-29 Thread Brian Lavender
The sample /etc/raidtab is different in the HOWTO compared to the sample /etc/raidtab given in version 0.9 of the raidtools. I got the 2.2.14 kernel patch and 0.90 version of the raidtools from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ I also picked up the latest version of the Software

Re: persistent superblock in HOWTO / raidtools

2000-02-29 Thread Thomas Rottler
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:40:24AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: persistent-superblock 1 ~~~ unrecognized option peristent-superblock detected error on line 9: peristent-superblock1 ~~ Could this be a typo??? ;-) Thomas

error in dmesg

2000-02-29 Thread Brian Lavender
I created the /dev/md0 and I compiled the kernel to pick up the devices automatically, but it looks as if dmesg indicates that something did not work right. Also, what sort of entries do I put in my /etc/fstab? Here is my dmesg output. It looks as if it is looking for a md-personality-3

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Dan Jones
James Manning wrote: [ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: /proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller

Re: persistent superblock in HOWTO / raidtools

2000-02-29 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Brian Lavender wrote: mammoth:/# mkraid /dev/md0 unrecognized option peristent-superblock Try using a spell checker :) James

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:41:23 -0500 From: James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: /proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N.

Re: persistent superblock in HOWTO / raidtools

2000-02-29 Thread George Liu
The sample raidconf will work. George Brian Lavender wrote: The sample /etc/raidtab is different in the HOWTO compared to the sample /etc/raidtab given in version 0.9 of the raidtools. I got the 2.2.14 kernel patch and 0.90 version of the raidtools from

Re: tiotest 0.21/0.24

2000-02-29 Thread Dan Jones
Christian Robottom Reis wrote: James, I've run a whole truckload of benchmarks on raid1 with varying chunksizes on three different kernels, and on a plain disk. I'm about to publish some of the stuff, but I'm wondering very hard why is it that the readbalancing test showed _awful_ numbers

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Thomas Rottler
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: I think you've got them mixed up. It makes the most sense to be able to boot from a RAID1 (mirror), next most to be able to boot from LINEAR, and the least ammount of sense to be able to boot from a RAID0 or RAID5, because of

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, James Manning wrote: [ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: /proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configuring Mylex

Re: still get max 12 disks limit

2000-02-29 Thread D. Lance Robinson
Perhaps if you also modified MAX_REAL in the md_k.h file to 15, it will like more than 12. This value is only used by raid0. Lance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried this but mkraid still gives the same error of "a maximum of 12 disks is supported." i set MD_SB_DISKS_WORDS to 480 to give me

Adding RAID-1 to an existing partition.

2000-02-29 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi all, I'm trying to add mirroring RAID to an existing partition. Is this possible? It appears to me that when I do mkraid I'm going to kill the existing data. Is there no way to tell it to use my exisiting data in a new RAID seting and sync it to the new partition(s)? Thank, --Rainer

RE: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
-Original Message- From: Thomas Rottler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:44 PM To: Linux RAID Subject: Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1 On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: I think you've got them mixed up.

Re: persistent superblock in HOWTO / raidtools

2000-02-29 Thread Brian Lavender
[cc'ed to linux-raid] Dominick, I got it working! I went through and made sure that I had raid1 compiled directly in the kernel along with ramdisk. I don't know if ramdisk is required, but I put it in there. I also threw in the other modules that were listed below the different raid levels in