Re: Need advice for updating old RAID to new RAID

2000-02-27 Thread Anthon van der Neut
Hi Marc, Suse (at least until 6.3) comes with the old style raid (kernel and tools) and the new tools. You can do two things to determine what is being used: - rpm -qi raidtool If not installed they did not use the newtools - Check the kernel sources for patches. Suse tells you to download an

SuSE 6.3 and mixed SCSI/IDE Raid 5

2000-01-26 Thread Anthon van der Neut
Hi there, just want to share some nasty experience (and what to do to solve it). Two weeks ago I installed a Raid-5 on two IDE and one SCSI partition under SuSE 6.3 with the raid0145 patches. The SCSI drive hangs of an adaptec controller. The drives were type fd and autodetection of raid is on in

Re: first timer

2000-01-26 Thread Anthon van der Neut
I first used the patche at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 Although not for kernel 2.2.13 most of it patches fine, with 2-3 files needing handadjustments and one: linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c needing more attention as some LVM code has been inserted th

Re: your mail

2000-01-23 Thread Anthon van der Neut
No it is not in the SUSE 6.3 stock kernel, the old md code is in there. There is a raidtool package with only the 0.9 tools, you have to get the patch yourself and patch by hand as the August 1999 code would not work on the source without patch complaining. Anthon - Original Message - Fro