Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread James Manning
[Harry Zink] > [root@gate Backup]# raidstop /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: Device or resource busy > > (This is normal, the fs is shared by atalk. I disable atalk) > > [root@gate Backup]# raidstop /dev/md0 > /dev/md0: Device or resource busy > > (Now this is no longer normal. No services or anything else

Re: md0 won't let go... (dmesg dump...)

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 4:25 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> You mean, reboot and at the lilo prompt type in 'linux single'? > > Yep, that's what I mean. Made no difference. Here's a dump from my dmesg at startup, though, maybe that can shed some light. From what I can see, md tries to g

RE: What is the "standard" way to delete RAID devices?

2000-05-10 Thread Dave Meythaler
I have been suffering with gaps in email delivery from outside sources due to continuing after-effects of the infamous "love bug" (gotta love NT mail servers). I don't know if any responses to this have been posted since last night (I had to grab this from a web archive just to read and respond t

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:20 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > > on 5/10/00 3:59 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ok, stupid questions. Try '

RAID patches author...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
Does Ingo, the author of the 0.90 RAID patches that I used read and participate on this list? My e-mail to him at the last known address has, not surprisingly, bounced. Harry <-- Things there ought to be a central e-mail depository for kernel maintainer e-mails...

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 3:59 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok, stupid questions. Try 'umount /dev/md0' then 'raidstop /dev/md0' and > then 'fdisk /dev/hdX'. [root@gate /root]# umount /dev/md0 [root@gate /root]# raidstop /dev/md0 [root@gate /root]# fdisk /dev/hdl Unable to open /dev/hdl

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 4:02 PM, Mr. James W. Laferriere at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Harry, I probably missed this in the earlier flurry > but which kermel version are you using & which raid patches ? kernel 2.2.15 ide patches for 2.2.15 raid patches 0.90 http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/r

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Harry, I probably missed this in the earlier flurry but which kermel version are you using & which raid patches ? Tia, JimL On Wed, 10 May 2000, Harry Zink wrote: > on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you claiming that /pro

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 4:56 PM, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Take a look in /proc/ide for the devices that the > kernel found on startup. drivers hdg hdj ide0 ide4 hda hdh hdl ide1 ide5 hdc hdi hpt366ide3 pdc202xx The right drives are

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:46 PM > To: James Manning > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Are you cla

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Michael
> on 5/10/00 2:08 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > That is a correct error message, and has nothing to do with RAID. You can't > > run fdisk on /dev/hdx1, you have to run fdisk on /dev/hdx > > Sorry, my bad in transcribing the error message. > > I tried to fdisk /dev/hdx

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you claiming that /proc/mdstat has the md0 active both before and > after running raidstop /dev/md0? Just want to clarify. Thus, to answer this question, yes, since it won't let me stop the RAID, I keep getting the same /proc i

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you claiming that /proc/mdstat has the md0 active both before and > after running raidstop /dev/md0? Just want to clarify. [root@gate Backup]# raidstart -a /dev/md0: File exists [root@gate Backup]# raidstop /dev/md0 /dev/md0:

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 3:29 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Changing the partition type from fd to something else > should prevent those disks from getting included in any RAID autostart. That's just it - these drives do not have an partitions set to fd. I'm trying to use fdisk precisely s

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread James Manning
[Harry Zink] > on 5/10/00 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > You probably need to do a 'raidstop' on md0. Then, maybe you can > > fdisk it? > > Been there, done that. > Makes no difference. It just very persistently holds on to these drives. Are you claiming that /proc

RE: Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-10 Thread Chance Reschke
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dave Meythaler wrote: > I was doing some testing earlier this week on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.14-5 > recompiled w/o raid modules) using /boot RAID-1 (two disks, hda and hdc) and > saw what sounds like the same problem discussed here. > > With hda unplugged, I would get 0x80 errors

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:27 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > on 5/10/00 3:00 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > D'oh! Are you sure that you ha

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 3:00 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > D'oh! Are you sure that you have the device entries correct? Yes, I have checked that multiple times. In fact, just to be sure I also inspected it using webmin, which has as a nice feature to ONLY show available drives in its fdi

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:56 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md0 won't let go... > > > on 5/10/00 2:08 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > That is a correct error mess

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 2:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You probably need to do a 'raidstop' on md0. Then, maybe you can > fdisk it? Been there, done that. Makes no difference. It just very persistently holds on to these drives. Harry

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 2:13 PM, Theo Van Dinter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what does "cat /proc/mdstat" say? do the drives appear in there somewhere? cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 hdh1[1] hdg1[0] 19806976 blocks 16k chunks unused devices:

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
on 5/10/00 2:08 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That is a correct error message, and has nothing to do with RAID. You can't > run fdisk on /dev/hdx1, you have to run fdisk on /dev/hdx Sorry, my bad in transcribing the error message. I tried to fdisk /dev/hdx And the error I

RE: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Harry Zink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: md0 won't let go... > > Problem: I compiled RAID patches properly into the recent > 2.2.15 kernel. I > have TWO IDE controllers (Promise & HPT366)

md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Harry Zink
Problem: I compiled RAID patches properly into the recent 2.2.15 kernel. I have TWO IDE controllers (Promise & HPT366). 2 drives attached to the HPT366 (10.1 gb IBMs), 3 drives attached to the Promise (3 x IBM 25.1 gb). I successfully created /dev/md0 with the 2 x 10.1 gb drives. When ataching

RE: Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-10 Thread Dave Meythaler
I was doing some testing earlier this week on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.14-5 recompiled w/o raid modules) using /boot RAID-1 (two disks, hda and hdc) and saw what sounds like the same problem discussed here. With hda unplugged, I would get 0x80 errors in lilo and was unable to boot except by floppy. I f

RE: Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-10 Thread Chance Reschke
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Martin Munt wrote: > Rich/Chance, > > I had EXACTLY the same problem. This post prompted me to fix it. > Thanks a lot. [ ... ] I followed Richard Bollinger's advice, reordering the disks in my root RAID-1 then rerunning lilo. With sda1 now raid-disk 0 and

RE: Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-10 Thread Martin Munt
Rich/Chance, I had EXACTLY the same problem. This post prompted me to fix it. Thanks a lot. My setup is basic Redhat 6.0 but with clean 2.2.14 kernel sources, mingo's 2.2.14-B1 patch & raidtools-19990824-0_90_tar.gz. After an unsuccessful attempt t