Re: Power Supply for multiple disks?

1) individual drive longevity is not important in RAID- when a disk fails you replace it and 2) if you're doing something important enough for RAID, you can probably afford the extra power draw :-) ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROT

Tired of Spam

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Re: What the hell is this?

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Re: What the hell is this?

At 12:51 PM 4/7/2000, Geoff Wheeler wrote: David Cooley wrote: At 10:27 AM 4/7/2000, Geoff Wheeler wrote: Are we being used? No, Spammed. Check the header. They're using the list to turn this stuff out. And unfortunately, the lists aren't "closed". Anyone posts to "[

Re: What the hell is this?

At 05:57 PM 4/7/00, Marc Mutz wrote: David Cooley wrote: snip And unfortunately, the lists aren't "closed". Anyone posts to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and it's sent to all members, regardless of whether the sender is subscribed or not. snip And that is A Good Thing(tm).

Re: superblock or the partition table is corrupt?

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Re: superblock or the partition table is corrupt?

don't know if re-writing the superblock with the type FD will preserve data or make the disk look empty... Better answered by someone with a little more experience than myself. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT

Re: System Hangs -- Which Is Most Stable Kernel?

scsi, etc in this config. all are fine. it would be interesting to see if raid is the issue, or your adaptec (i am inclined to think the latter). --snip-- ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.

Re: superblock or the partition table is corrupt?

pt! Aborty? - But the constituent disks have 757055 blocks each. Should I do "mkraid --really-force /dev/md0" ? ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

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Re: Software RAID with kernel 2.2.14

: inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive allan's right, this is an unpatched kernel. Did you copy your vmlinuz or vmlinux and System.map to /boot or make pointers to them in /etc/lilo.conf?? === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which patch? Kernel 2.2.14

the kernel. Is it already built in?? ide_2_2_14_2124 takes care of ATA-66 drivers. They are not reffered to as in general 'ATA-66', but are rather mentioned on per-chipset basis. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is one, for example... D. ======= Da

Re: SV: SV: Could one disk cause all this, or is it a bug in Linux-RAID?

, they were caused by the cache. Also, what CPU are you running? If it's an AMD, make sure that you disable caching of the BIOS in the setup also. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R

Re: are there archives or FAQ's?

active md3 : inactive -- Derek Shaw Business Information Systems Voice:250-885-2021 Fax:250-386-4060 ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: RAID list

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RE: rh 6.2 beta: raid upgrade possible?

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RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

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Re: mkraid aborting without any useful information

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Re: Newbie

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Re: Unable to initialize a linear array

close to the same usage. Is there anything I am missing or that I don't properly understand? Thanks in advance for any help! Jacob === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We

Re: mkraid: aborted

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Re: 2.3.x ??

) for updates come with the patch added though... Not sure about other distro's. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: Raid 0 problems

the old format. How can I get more infos about the new format. cu Jens === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Raid results

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Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

! At 10:23 PM 1/24/00 +0800, Gary Allpike wrote: I have put up a pre-patched kernel source at : http://spice.indigo.net.au/linux-2.2.14+raid-2.2.14-B1.tar.bz2 === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA

2.2.14 sparc...

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Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

with no rejects. regards Gary Allpike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.au On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: Anyone successfully gotten raid 5 working with the new 2.2.14 kernel? I downloaded the 2.2.14 kernel source tree and installed it, then downloaded Mingo's 2.2.14 raid patch

RE: Welcome to linux-raid

between 2.2.14 and the raid0145 2.2.11 patch. Clay -Original Message- From: David Cooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 12:01 PM To: Antanas Masevicius; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Welcome to linux-raid You MUST apply the 2.2.11 raid

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

/sparc64_ksyms.c.rej patching file `linux/Documentation/Configure.help' Hunk #1 FAILED at 956. Hunk #2 FAILED at 1041. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to linux/Documentation/Configure.help.rej [root@bigdaddy src]# === David Cooley N5XMT Internet

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

make sure you: patch -p1 mingos.patch.file all hunks should go in OK -- did for me Since I put his patch in /usr/src I used patch -p0 raid-2.2.14-b1 === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

up a pre-patched kernel source at : http://spice.indigo.net.au/linux-2.2.14+raid-2.2.14-B1.tar.bz2 regards Gary Allpike [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.au On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: Oops... I meant fresh 2.2.14 kernel.org source. At 10:33 PM 1/23/2000 -0500, David

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

Oops... I meant fresh 2.2.14 kernel.org source. At 10:33 PM 1/23/2000 -0500, David Cooley wrote: Here's what I get when patching against a fresh 2.2.13-1.3.0 kernel source Where'd you get your source? I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 At 11:08 AM 1/24/00 +0800

Re: Linux software status?

for me, one for the wife) and have 2 20G md devices. It's been running this way since October with only 2 reboots, and one was for upgrading from RH6.0 to RH6.1 I'm running SAMBA on it for connectivity to the Win machines in my house. === David

Re: Welcome to linux-raid

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Re: Bug in raid5.c line 659

lag kernel: THIS: DISKN:0,hda4(3,4),R:0,S:6 Jan 8 05:22:43 gulag kernel:** /blockquote/x-html ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Membe

RE: swapping on raid

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Re: Don't try this at home!

. This suggests that Raid5 _can_ be more fragile than a non Raid setup. Regards: Jim Ford === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: mkraid problem

mandrake! What other incompatabilities do they include!) === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: mkraid problem

the updates are there, and I custom compile my kernels... I only use the "canned" kernels for the initial boot and install. ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 W

Re: Help needed, disk failure on _old_ RAID-array

need to know as much as possible in advance, since the computer has on-site warranty and they just throw new one in and take bad one and leave... No time to put old one back in if something happens. -- Simo Varis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.iki.fi/simo/ =

Re: Expanding a Raid5 filesystem

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Re: Abandoned root Raid0 - success with root Raid5!

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Re: RAID 1 errors? Now What?

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RE: Performance .... MegaRAID

it with 6 volumes, CPU useage drops to 19-21%... Opposite what would be expected. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

RE: Please Help - SCSI RAID device very slow

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Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

just need to turn HW compression on the drive off to use SW compression? Thanks, Dave === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: raidtools kernel patch

Thomas Waldmann wrote: Am Sun, 17 Oct 1999 schrieb Robert: Hm, those 2.2.11 raid patches did not work for me. After applying and ignoring the 2 errors, I got this upon compiling: I applied the raidpatch 2.2.11/0824 to a 2.2.12 kernel and it worked well. There were only some

Re: Re: raid problem

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Re: Re: raid problem

Also running RAID5 with 12 4.2G 1RPM Seagate Cheetah drives in a SUN D1000 drive array. At 09:15 AM 10/15/1999 -0400, David Cooley wrote: At 10:33 AM 10/15/1999 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: well, i'm using a bi celeron motherboard (abit bp6) and smp is really better with 2.3 kernels I'm

Re:

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Re: where is autodetect raid code in 2.3.19??

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Re: raid 1 problem with kernel 2.2.12

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FDISK

Where can the new version of FDISK be found at? === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: Rh 6.0 autodetecting kernel

then it's in a module and you need to do an mkinitrd to enable the raid modules at boot time. ======= David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

RE: putting failed disk back in array

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Re: Boot Linear/RAID-1 [was: Root Raid Questions....]

one chunk on that drive are history === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: Hot swap problems... continued

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Re: Linux LVM Software RAID.

on a Sun Ultra 2. It's rock stable. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: Raidtools

no Raid definitions in the kernel headers: Raidtools 0.41 isn't the latest and doesn't work with the patch... Raidtools 0.90-3 is the latest and works great with the patch === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO

RE: Raidtools

At 09:52 AM 9/23/1999 -0400, Drenning Bruce wrote: not to quibble, but the latest version is 0.90-5 (on i386 anyway). Ah.. I need to get it then... Last time I grabbed them is was still -3... I need to check more often! === David Cooley

Re: Linux box locking up ..

stable... Sun Ultra Enterprise 2, dual 300MHz CPU's and an External SUN StorEdge D1000 raid. === David Cooley N5XMT Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Packet: N5XMT@KQ4LO.#INT.NC.USA.NA T.A.P.R. Member #7068 We are Borg... Prepare to be assimilated! ===

Re: RAID is now working...

ew" one has ver 1.71 on the sticker on the prom on the board, and the "old" one (the one that works all the time) has 1.73 on it. The code read by the kernel driver in the boards is 1.21 for the one that fails and 1.25 on the good one. ======

Re: superblock Q/clarification

participating in the array. This allows the It's a bug ! The superblocks are written in the end of all disks. I'll fix this in the HOWTO ASAP. Does this mean we no longer have to start raid partitions at block 1 instead of block zero? === David

Re: superblock Q/clarification

since. I'm running Kernel 2.2.12 with raidtools 0.90 and all the patches.. At 04:17 PM 11/4/1999 +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:01:41AM -0500, David Cooley wrote: ... Does this mean we no longer have to start raid partitions at block 1 instead of block zero? I'm