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: Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-10 Thread Chance Reschke
ray was reversed, lilo complained with the boot-time message "Error 0x80" and required me to enter a valid kernel label to boot. This confirms that lilo is not properly updating the second disk in the array. - C -- Chance Reschke UW Astronomy

Lilo RAID-1 woes

2000-05-08 Thread Chance Reschke
xists - no backup copy made. Map file size: 10240 bytes. Writing boot sector. Any help fixing this would be great. Thanks, Chance -- Chance Reschke UW Astronomy

Re: Corrupted filesystem on RAID-5 volume

1999-11-09 Thread Chance Reschke
> I have a fileserver with two, 8-disk RAID-5 volumes, both of which > appear to be corrupted. Linux kernel 2.2.12, raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 > patch, raidtools-0.90. I could use some help reviving my filesystems, > if that's possible. [ ... ] My disks are back on-line. It turns out that I had

Corrupted filesystem on RAID-5 volume

1999-11-08 Thread Chance Reschke
t;mke2fs -b 4096 -R stride=8", so I assume I should use these options along with "-S" if I go that route? Anyway, I'll be very grateful for anything anyone can do to help. Thanks, Chance -- Chance Reschke Astronomy Department University of Washington

Re: harmless (?) error

1999-08-18 Thread Chance Reschke
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, James Manning wrote: > > I missed the start of this thread, so I don't know what RAID level you're > > using. I did some RAID-0 tests with the new Linux RAID code back in March > > on a dual 450Mhz Xeon box. Throughput on a single LVD bus appears to peak > > at abou

Re: RAID-5 Recovery testing

1999-05-20 Thread Chance Reschke
mode, and the array came up OK. As it resynced itself (necessary because of the ungraceful shutdown - even the array without hardware failure had to resync), I fscked the filesystem clean without any trouble. - C -- Chance Reschke University of Washington Astronomy

Re: bonnie stats for DAC960. need help: compare w/SW raid

1999-03-03 Thread Chance Reschke
>---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- >-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU > 500 3742 46.8 4623 6.7 2604 7.9 6614 72.9 13314 14.6 183.

Re: eide raid5?

1999-01-19 Thread Chance Reschke
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > | Hmm. I use SCSI on high-performance systems, but if IDE is so bad, why > | does NASA use IDE? ;) > > as far as I know, beowulf tends to use the network more than the disk, so it > isn't necessary to have an extremely fast disk subsystem. RAM, CP

Problems using RAID-0

1998-12-18 Thread Chance Reschke
Hi, I'm having trouble setting up a RAID0 array using the raid0145-19981215-2.0.36 kernel patch and the raidtools-19981214-0.90 tools. I patched up and rebuilt the kernel, ran lilo and reboted. I created an /etc/raidtab based on the example, and rebooted again. The kernel reports the followi

LVD RAID Controller performance

1998-12-14 Thread Chance Reschke
Hi, Has anyone run bonnie against RAID-0/5 arrays running on either the AMI 438 Ultra-2/LVD with good LVD disks (e.g. Quantum Atlas III or even Seagate Cheetah)? With any other LVD RAID controller? If so, I'd like to see your results. Thanks, Chance

AMI Megaraid Woes

1998-12-10 Thread Chance Reschke
Hi, I am attempting to use the Dell OEM version of the AMI Megaraid 428 SCSI RAID controller. I'm using RedHat Linux 5.2 for Intel along with the 0.92 version of the megaraid driver which is distributed with RedHat's 2.0.36 kernel. So far, I have been unable to get the kernel to recognize the c