Re: EIDE-UDMA33 to UW-SCSI bridge

2000-06-28 Thread Douglas Egan
tail price of these bridges is about 110 EURO + tax here. > > If somebody finds better prices somewhere else, please notify me. > > I use 4 of these bridges + 4 IBM DTLA EIDE disks attached to an AIC-7895 > dual-UW-chip in my Linux Software RAID5 setup (just to

Re: 2.2.16 RAID patch

2000-06-14 Thread Douglas Egan
Pardon my confusion. I want to move from 2.2.14 raid5 with IDE patches to support Promise Ultra66 to the 2.2.16 version. I have the raid patches, but I am confused about which ide patch to take. Should I use: ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.16/ide.2.2.16-pre7.2509.p

Re: redhat 6.2 and RAID patches

2000-05-25 Thread Douglas Egan
applying the patches specified in the attachment to the RH kernel will generate lots of errors. Regards, Doug Egan -- --- +-+ | Douglas EganWind River

My benchmarks

2000-04-25 Thread Douglas Egan
.34% 20.54 18.5% 0.776 2.34% I am not sure what to make of the results and am happy with my RAID operation. I only post them FYI. +-----+ | Douglas Egan

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

2000-04-18 Thread Douglas Egan
My thanks to Erich for helping me out with this. The explicit directions below were all I needed. I am now running RAID5 on the patched 2.2.14 kernel, with the Promise Ultra66. Erich deserves his "2 cents"! I was worried about just swapping in the Ultra card for the EIDE Max card, but to my pl

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

2000-04-14 Thread Douglas Egan
Erich, I am planning on trying to use the Promise Ultra66 tonight (want to beef up performance). I currently have RAID5 running with a Promise EIDE-MaxII card quite nicely. I know about the 2.2.14-B1 patch for RAID, but which promise patch are you referring to? I see that Promise has a beta dr

Re: RAID5 array not coming up after "repaired" disk

2000-03-24 Thread Douglas Egan
When this happened to me I had to "raidhotadd" to get it back in the list. What does your /proc/mdstat indicate? Try: raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sde7 Doug Egan Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi! > > I am using kernel 2.2.14 with the RedHat Patch (raid-2.2.14-B1) on a Debian > System, raid tools 0.90.99

Re: not finding extra partitions

2000-03-22 Thread Douglas Egan
ld? > > raidhotadd /dev/mdX /dev/sd?? > > then it reconstructs. > > -sv -- --- +-+ | Douglas EganWind River Systems, Inc.| +-+

not finding extra partitions

2000-03-21 Thread Douglas Egan
run in degraded mode. How can I force a "good" partition so the array will rebuild? -- --- +-----+ | Douglas EganWind River | | Sr. Staff Engineer