hi ya ryan
usually i get the opposite problem
how to stop the system from autodetecting the
raid array sot hat it doesnt stop the booting...
so to turn it ondo the oopposite of what i do
to fix my "faulty raid" when it dies
- make sure you have /etc/raidtab
- make sure your kernel
hi "raiders"...
i recently changed my raid5 box that was running on debian-2.2
into a new atx case new linux-2.2.16...etc.e.tc...
-
- its in a 1U raid5 box... worlds first ??
-
seems like mkraid does various different things ???
some mkraid works and other versions
hi ya "raiders"
i just upgraded my old sw raid5 on debian-2.2 w/ linux-2.2.10
to linux-2.2.16 w/ the patches from mingo's patch dirs...
works good...nice and clean...no problems...
good work guys
and my (abbreviated) collection of raid stuff...
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/Docs
c ya
hi ya michael
could you send me a list of the "pager utilties" ??
or urls...
here's my list of "raid monitoring" scripts
( written by others ... )
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/Docs
raid_monitor*
and for normal monitoring tools...
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
hi all "raiders"
just was at the pc store in the duilding I'm in..
they have scsi-2 raid cards from adaptec...
1-channel($430) and 3-channel($650) raid controllers..
a dumb question... what are the channels used for ???
have fun raiding...
alvin
hi ya bryan
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO
and my collection...
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid
chunksize...etc
http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Raid/Docs/raid_chunksize.txt
chunk size and stripping comparson
hi danilo
I've collected some monitoring tools/scripts people have hacked...
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/docs/raid_monitor*
I also reviewsed/collected some regular monitoring tools
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Monitor/monitor.pl
about 40 lines
hi ya chris
I have a RAID array created using raidtools-0.41 on a 2.0.36 kernel (RedHat 5.0
i think), which is running Linux software RAID-5 just fine.
I am updating the software to RedHat v6.0 soon which uses raidtools-0.90 and a
2.2.5 kernel.
Anyone see any potential problems or have
hi ya...
This is a feature of the new graphical installer. Creating raid
partitions is not available if you are using the text mode installer.
Is it available if you do a kickstart installation?
I'd be interested in writing an installer/duplicator...
- am tired of doing it the redhat
hi ya tom
if the idea is to have a "fail safe" system
when we were doing doa work for the gov't... we had to have
multiple redundancyand redundancy for the redundancy...
( gov't had too much $$$ to throw at it )
but basically, how I would like to see a "HA" type linux system
would
hi ya robin
I have had success mirroring linux with Redhat 5.2. I used the same procedure
(minor variations) on 6.0 and the process does not work. Is there a tried and
true way to mirror?
my understanding of mirroring.got carried away in my mirroring scenario...
using hardware or
hi marc
To all of you that shout for raid-0.90 into kernel 2.2.12:
Would you please tell us how to upgrade old existing raid0/linear
devices (smoothly, IP)?
when I tried out our old raid drives with linux-2.2.10...it wouldn;t
recognize it so I compiled raid-0.42 under 2.2.10 and still
hi ya andrew...
I donno... but if it did...it'd make monitoring the
raid drives/controller trivial to monitor it for the
various status codes...
have fun
alvin
Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
Hi Alvin,
A question, is there anything that returns the status of a
MegaRaid controler,
hi ya michael
I've sucessfully installed Linux on a system with a MegaRAID 466 card and
was wondering what sort of monitoring software might be available to notify
me in the event of a drive failure.
I've collected some raid monitoring software...
- credit due to it's authors... some
hi joel
just apply the "secure server part" to your rh-6.0 machine ?
Using your current know to be working rh-6.0 system...
mount /mnt/rh-secure-server-cdrom
rpm -ivh --test /mnt/rh-ss-cdrom/RPMS/apache* ( and its secure server
dependencies )
have fun
alvin
Joel Fowler
know which RPMs need to be
installed. Also, there may be additinal configuration performed by the
installation procedure.
Joel
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At 03:45 PM 7/30/99 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
hi joel
just apply the "secure server part" to your rh-6.0 machine ?
Using your cur
hi ya roeland
Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
Welcome to binary-only RPM's. You get the same thing by downloading and
building the latest apache, then adding OpenSSL and mod_perl. It's a LOT
less work. Take the RedHat 6.0 Secure Server back for a refund or use
the CD as a $75US coaster.
hi ya...
I was using raid0 on rh-5.x w/ mdadd/mdcreate
I upgraded to rh-6.0 and all hell broke loose
but is now working fine..
there were compile or autodetect or raidstart
problems with other raidtool packages
- similarly with different kernels...
works fine w/
hi jim
I'm trying to setup Raid 1 in sftwr using Redhat 6.0 w/2 identical
EIDE drives (13GB) as hda hdc, but can't get it to work.
Is there any definitive doc somewhere that describes how to do this w/the current
kernel?
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO
I use linux-2.2.6
hi allan, steve,
using NT to backup linux destroys linux permissions...
using linux to backup NTs destroys NT permissions/uid/gid
- as others have stated earlier
using mirror'ed disks might result in the original disk being bad/corrupted
and the mirror itself to be bad...( you have the time
hi abed
your are showing that sda5 and sdb5 is used as /local and /loca1
you cannot use those partitions in another raid partition ( /dev/md0 )
( take sda5 and sdb5 out of your /etc/fstab file )
in /etc/raid1.conf, you need to select partitions that are NOT used
anywhere else
if
hi ya alvin
I have a system running a vintage 1.2.124 kernel with the autorun enabled.
is that really 1.2.124 or 2.1.124 ??
In short I am booting and running the whole system off of a set of raid1
partiontions.
I now want to upgrade to 2.2.1. I tried the simple thing of just
hi ya osma
for larger systems/clusters:
what about the linux High Availability project ?
and/or the beowolf project ?
No Linux project I know of can yet provide generic failsafe clustering.
am thinking...( outloud )
we can get dual hosted disk controllers...
we can get dual CPU
hi ya ingo
just to add one more point, i was waiting for 2.2 to stabilize before
moving the RAID driver to 2.2.x. But when patches began floating around
i picked up the 2.2.0 stuff...seems to work okay for me with 2.2.1 kernel...
but I did not test thoroughly
think like any new sw, it will
hi ya "raid gurus"
I've collected some docs of lastest/raid docs stuff
think about 2 or three people posted their versions...
( unfortunately I did not keep copies from before )
I made my version too so that I can remember what I did
to get my stuff running...
- yes..am willing to help
hi linux-raid folks...
I just finished installing the raid stuff into linux-2.2.1
w/ rh-5.2 with all the 5.2 patch files
I used raid0145-19990128-2.2.0.gz and also the latest
raidtools-19990128-0.90.tar.gz
it works good...
however, I'm sure you folks all know that there is a header problem
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