Re: Errors when trying to patch kernel

2000-03-06 Thread Marc Mutz
Slip wrote: Hi there, I downloaded the latest raid patch(raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz) and am having a bit of trouble patching it in Slackware 7.0. As stated in the Kernel HOWTO, this is how I attempted to patch: 'zcat raidx.gz | patch -p0' snip Two things: 1.) Latest raid patch

Re: Can LILO boot from raid ?

2000-03-06 Thread Michael
Everything has been done, we got a slackware7 installed straight into a software raid 1 disk set but still cannot boot from there, LILO says "Sorry don t know to handle device 0X900" We got lilo 021-10 from Red Hat but even with the patches it still behaves the same way .. Is there any

SW-Raid1 over network block devices

2000-03-06 Thread Holger Kiehl
Hello, I tried to do the following: Computer 1 (node1) | Computer 2 (node2) -+ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/nbd (100MB) | dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/nbd (100MB) nbd-server 1024 /home/nbd| nbd-server

Raid(1) Installation strategies...

2000-03-06 Thread Slip
Hi there, My first experiance this week with raid yielded some whacked consequences(more on that below). If you don't mind bearing with my explanation, this should be a cut and try problem. Here is my setup: /dev/sdb:(1st 2.1G SCSI) /dev/sdb1 -SWAP -100Mb /dev/sdb2 -/ - 800Mb /dev/sdb3 -

Re: SW-Raid1 over network block devices

2000-03-06 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, March 6, 2000 ] Holger Kiehl wrote: node2: 2 x PII-350 128MB with 5 disks used as one single SW-Raid5, kernel 2.2.14 + mingos patch could you try 2 things? 1) UP kernel 2) kernel 2.3.30 (SMP and then UP if still locks) Is it a problem that /dev/nd1

Re: big big problem

2000-03-06 Thread Luca Berra
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:06:30PM +0100, Mathieu ARNOLD wrote: Hi a box i have crashed this morning, the problem is that : how could i tell the kernel to start the raid array and do what it can to recover the datas ? as far as i can tell, the problem comes from : 4hdh1's event counter:

SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread Johan Ekenberg
The Epox mb. has only one AIC7890 controller for U2W (LVD). All six drives are on this controller. Perhaps I have to replace all disks as well then... Hmm... scsii is pretty tough to mess up, but it is possible. Are there any error messages in any of the logs from the scsii bus?

SV: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread Johan Ekenberg
No. Like described in my original post, the crashes occur with no warning at all. The system just goes down as when pulling the power cord, and if the raid superblocks don't mess up to bad it comes back up again. Could have a bad power supply, and the other item is the Motherboards

Re: SV: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

2000-03-06 Thread David Cooley
At 09:53 AM 3/6/2000, Johan Ekenberg wrote: No. Like described in my original post, the crashes occur with no warning at all. The system just goes down as when pulling the power cord, and if the raid superblocks don't mess up to bad it comes back up again. Could have a bad power

RE: Can LILO boot from raid ?

2000-03-06 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Try going to ftp.redhat.com, and look in the source directory for the patch to lilo, then try patching that onto the decompressed lilo tarball, and try building by hand, to see if there are config options that you might have missed. I've seen a number of people having this issue, but no

Errors when trying to patch kernel

2000-03-06 Thread Slip
Hi there, I downloaded the latest raid patch(raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz) and am having a bit of trouble patching it in Slackware 7.0. As stated in the Kernel HOWTO, this is how I attempted to patch: 'zcat raidx.gz | patch -p0' The system responds with: can't find file to patch at input

Re: kernel 2.3.4X raid0 performance problems

2000-03-06 Thread Karl Czajkowski
It doesnt compile if you select it, but "boot with raid" works without enabling it anyway. yeah? thanks for the info... karl