mkraid 2.4.0-test1-ac10 fails

2000-06-08 Thread Erik Petersen
Is there some secret I need to know to get MD running on 2.4.0-test1? I'm using the tools from ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha (Aug '99) but to no avail. When I try to build a RAID5 with 3 SCSI disk partitions, I get a forced oops with a complaint about a bug in asm/semaphore.h line

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Bryan Batchelder wrote: Also, isn't RAID5 incredibly slow on anything but a well cached hardware RAID5 is CPU bound, so the CPU on the RAID controller becomes the limiting factor. That's why the more recent RAID cards have very beefy CPU's (eg SA1100's at 200MHz up[1]),

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Edward Schernau wrote: But YES, it's not out of the realm of possibility that a 7 cent resistor could make the normal card into a real RAID card. to counter your NT ws/sv registry example, in the case of RAID we are talking about tangible hardware where one application

RE: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-08 Thread Bryan Batchelder
Title: RE: ATA66 Raid I always thought it was the necessary writes to all disks for a single write to the array??? I am (obvisouly) not a RAID expert but that is what I was told by a few people who deal with RAID on Sun boxes...maybe they are wrong... --b -Original Message- From: