resyncing takes forever again

2000-06-06 Thread Robert Stuart
Hi, Note: Could people email me directly please as I am not on the list. I found the message at the bottom on the mailing list archives... I'd like to register a "me too" with this problem. Was there any further discussion? I've got a 2.2.14 kernel with the Mingo patch 2.2.14-B1, and I get

raidtools install error

2000-06-06 Thread Stephen O'Mohany
Hi, I would be very grateful if someone could shed some light on the following error I am installing raidtools-0.50 on kernel 2.4_test. The configure works fine but when I run "make" I exit with the following error. /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md_k.h:59: # error MD doesn't handle

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Stephen Frost
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Bryan Batchelder wrote: Hi guys-- I am setting up a small server (its an old dual PentiumPro 180 rig), and its main job is just serving files. I want to throw in 3 or 4 30GB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM ATA66 drives. What is the best ATA66 card to buy?

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Cavanaugh, Craig
Try the following http://www.3ware.com/products/linux3ware.shtml I have a Promise Utlra66 Card that is working great with a couple of WD Ultra DMA 66 drives On top of that, it's inside a BP6 system in the slot that share an Irq with a HPT??? ide controller. Everything works great without any

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Bryan Batchelder
Title: RE: ATA66 Raid Cool, thats what I run on my personal machine (I have a BP6 with dual 550s) and I got the Promise card and modded it to be a FastTrak66 :-) I am waiting for the linux FastTrak66 drivers though. --b -Original Message- From: Cavanaugh, Craig [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:48:03AM -0400, Bryan Batchelder wrote: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM ATA66 drives. What is the best ATA66 card to buy? Promise? I have a friend who set up a promise card and he said it kept crashing on him (once a day) My HPT366 crash the machine hard, relieably and in

FW: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Peter Frischknecht
I would just go with 3Ware. For $100 you can get a true hardware, 2 IDE 66 drive, RAID 1 or 0 configuration. With Hard drives as cheap as $260 for a 60Gig drive, you can have a redundant 60Gig RAID 1 system for under $700!!(including hot swap trays) I bought the FastTrak and it now sits on my

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread bug1
"Cavanaugh, Craig" wrote: Try the following http://www.3ware.com/products/linux3ware.shtml I have a Promise Utlra66 Card that is working great with a couple of WD Ultra DMA 66 drives On top of that, it's inside a BP6 system in the slot that share an Irq with a HPT??? ide controller.

Netfinity raid

2000-06-06 Thread Gunnar Lindholm
Hello. I installed a second CPU in a IBM netfinity 5000 today. I run RedHat Linux 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) but I got a strange problem when I tried to run a SMP kernel. The kernel was the one chiped with 6.2. I also tried with a kernel that I compiled my self. The problem was that the machine hanged

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Peter Frischknecht
Title: RE: ATA66 Raid You are very welcome for the reply. Your questions: 1. I purchased mine from : http://www.thelinuxstore.com/perl-bin/index.pl?catid=66 2. The specs you saw are outdated. In fact, the PDF document that describes the card is outdated. If you go to their Web

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread m . allan noah
i will point this out AGAIN. the promise fastTrak is NOT hardware raid. did you really think 30 seconds with a soldering iron and a 7 cent resistor could make a hardware raid device from a 20 dollar ide card? there is no cpu on board the card, and all the 'raid' functionality is provided in

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Bryan Batchelder
Title: RE: ATA66 Raid I bought the promise card because it acts like an abstraction layer between OS and RAID Array. Windows sees it as a huge 60GB drive, while it is really 2 30GBs. DOS sees it as one big disk. I would like to point out that the FastTrak outperforms software raid in

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread m . allan noah
i think saying 'fasttrak software raid is faster than windows software raid, hence it will be faster than linux software raid' is a severe over simplification of what is going on here. if there _were_ to be fastrak software drivers under linux, i sincerely doubt they would be better than the

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Chris Tooley
Which module is used for this card? Is it a patch or is it in the 2.2.14 kernel? Chris Tooley Peter Frischknecht wrote: You are very welcome for the reply.Your questions:1. I purchased mine from : http://www.thelinuxstore.com/perl-bin/index.pl?catid=662. The specs you saw are outdated. In fact,

Re: FW: ATA66 Raid - hotswap trays

2000-06-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi peter where did you get the "hot swap trays" for IDE drive ?? how is the connectors done...or does the tray have its IDE drive connectors... and the try has a special connector to go to the "raid" backplane ?? have you tried to pull power to the ide-based raid drive say the master drive

Re: resyncing takes forever again

2000-06-06 Thread Robert Stuart
Brian Grossman wrote: I found the message at the bottom on the mailing list archives... I'd like to register a "me too" with this problem. Was there any further discussion? I've got a 2.2.14 kernel with the Mingo patch 2.2.14-B1, and I get the same problem. I get no scsi errors,

Linux software RAID performance.

2000-06-06 Thread Torbjorn Olander
Hi! I got a linux software raid setup with this: 2 Promise Ultra 66 controllers 4 Maxtor DiamondMax 60 60 GB drives. Intel DK440LX motherboard 2xP2 333, 256 MB RAM I got the 4 drives set up in a RAID0 configuration with 32k chunk size. The filesystem on the drives is Ext2 with 4k block size.

Offtopic: SMP Alpha server vendors (for RAID DB)?

2000-06-06 Thread dave-mlist
I'm looking for vendors that sell SMP Alpha servers. This will be for a high-volume database server running software raid and MySQL on RH6.2. Any recommendations? Dave