Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-24 Thread Chris Bondy
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Clay Claiborne wrote: > For what its worth, we recently built an 8 ide drive 280GB raid5 system. > Benchmarking with HDBENCH we got 35.7MB/sec read and 29.87MB/sec write. With > DBENCH and 1 client we got 44.5 MB/sec with 3 clients it dropped down to about > 43MB/sec. > Th

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Bondy
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Tony Grant wrote: > Erich wrote: > > > Any clues? I feel like I've done everything according to the > > instructions, and I feel like I'm very close to getting it to work, > > but it's still not working. Have I left out something important in > > the kernel config? Or

Re: Promise ATA66

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Bondy
I've currently using ata6 with kernel 2.3.48 , and I also have fasttrak66 card, I've send email to promise (found the person's emailed in source card, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) he has mentioned that 'maybe' at some point promise will support the fastrak66 raid feature in linux, as binary loaded modul

Re: raid 1 mirror

2000-03-28 Thread Chris Bondy
I've ran old MD-utils since it come out and still running it, very heavly. I've only had major problems, when there was hardware problems, of course there are bugs in all software. I'd say to move up tho. Use the new raid-utils. I don't do the boot-Raid, if you're not, you should be fine, the ne

hi

2000-03-24 Thread Chris Bondy
I've ran old md-utils since it come out, worked fine for me, but since I have this new promise ata66 controller, I needed to got newer kernel's So I noticed old md-utils didn't work, after alot time looking around for new tools ( most I found are dated 97/98, the newest ones I've , were titled -