Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread Marc Mutz
"m.allan noah" wrote: snip instead, then you are running a patched kernel, and your problem must lie elsewhere (try recompiling the raid tools from source) snip ... and check if you installed the raidtools.rpm and not the mdutils.rpm. Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread flag
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, m. allan noah wrote: mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel is RAID patched: 2.2.14) [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread David Cooley
I got the same errors until I increased my chunk size to 32K At 01:32 PM 3/23/2000, you wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, m. allan noah wrote: mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel is RAID patched:

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread m . allan noah
someone out there correct me if i am wrong, but from looking at my boxes: raid 0.4x (which comes stock in the 2.2.x series of kernels) has a /proc/mdstat that looks like this: [root@finch root]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 :

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread James Manning
[flag] And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel is RAID patched: 2.2.14) [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive allan's

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread David Cooley
At 04:25 PM 3/23/2000, James Manning wrote: [flag] And if I get the same msg when I try to build a raid 0? (my kernel is RAID patched: 2.2.14) [flag@Luxor flag]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 :

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-23 Thread phil
Perhaps it would help to put some version information in the proc file? A raid-md version or something? It seems that most people's troubles are related to not being able to confirm if they really were able to patch, build, and install the kernel properly. Just my $.02. Phil On Thu, Mar

raidtools-0.90 ioctl

2000-03-23 Thread Michael T. Babcock
I'm running Kernel 2.2.14 with the ReiserFS and crypto patches. I'm trying to use raidtools-0.90 to build a raid5 set. The configuration file is fine, as this works on another similarly configured machine (with 2.2.12 and no ReiserFS). I'm getting (after adding some extra debugging to mkraid.c)

Re: raidtools-0.90 ioctl

2000-03-23 Thread Erik Petersen
"Michael T. Babcock" wrote: I'm running Kernel 2.2.14 with the ReiserFS and crypto patches. I'm trying to use raidtools-0.90 to build a raid5 set. Read the ReiserFS README. It does not work with RAID 5. Erik.

Re: raidtools-0.90 ioctl

2000-03-23 Thread James Manning
[Michael T. Babcock] And where can I find err # 22 ... or is it not defined yet? defined in asm/errno.h as EINVAL James

Detecting Harddisks

2000-03-23 Thread Mishra . R
Title: Detecting Harddisks Hi all, Currently I am working on a Raid driver. And my driver should be able to Identify the disk which are already there and the one added on the fly. can somebody help me detacting the harddisk ( scsi /ide) on the fly? regards Rajesh misra.