On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Danilo Godec wrote:
Hi,
> Can I use partitions on software raid device (/dev/md0, raid-5 in my
> case)?
No. raid is usually composed of block devices, being partitions or
whole-disks. a raid volume is also treated as a block device, i.e. as
a partition, you
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Kent A. Ziebell wrote:
Hi,
> Last Monday (while I was gone attending a conference of course) it seems
> that one of my raid-1 disk pairs had some kind of software error causing
> the raid to break:
[...]
(Kernel error messages)
[...]
> The disk drives involved are
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Shoggoth wrote:
Hi,
> My RAID is like this :
>
> IDE0 >hda1 (170mb)
> |-->hdb1 (Seagate 210) |
> IDE1->hdc1 (Seagate 210) | -> md0
> |-->hdd1 (Conner 210) |
>
> on a 486DX
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, DarkMoon wrote:
Hi,
> I was wondering what would be a good hardware raid controller for use
> with RH 6.1? I'm looking at the Mylex extreme Raid. Is a hardware
I personally (on HW raid) prefer ICP Vortex ones, search the list
archives for a more detailed e
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Radomski, Mike wrote:
> I have redhat installed on an Alpha server and set up a Raid-0 array with 5
> hard disks. I set the partition type to "fd" for all devices in the array.
> On boot up, the kernel recognizes the partitions as a Raid set, initializes
> it and then stops
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Glenn McGrath wrote:
Hi,
> I think one of the biggest problems with the howto, is that there are two
> versions of it.
>
> Places like linuxdoc.org and linux.com and metalab.unc.edu all have have the
> old version last updated in 98
>
> I guess this is partly a nec
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Stephen Waters wrote:
> Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Here is the output of df -k:
> > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Cap
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
>>> I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my
>>> budget. Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes
>>> killed it for me.
> > What do you mean by append? As I said on a post recently, I've
>
>
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote:
Hi,
[...]
> > I'd check the jumpers to see if the unit allows hardware
> > compression to be set by software. Check either hp.com for this or the
> > unit documentation. Once you're sure that the unit allows it, use mt-dds
> > to set it. I fo
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote:
Hi,
> Here is the output of df -k:
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/md0 5916736 811879 4798422 14% /
> /dev/md1 3106031 41673 2903712 1% /var
> /dev/sda1
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, John Ronan wrote:
Hi,
> Hi,
> I've a problem with a Hard Lockup on a Software-Raid server
> #cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.2.6 (root@inishlar) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201
> (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #3 Thu Jul 8 12:00:38 IST 1999
>
> Cards in the machine a
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
> Now that someone has started this thread :)
>
> Are there any other "industrial strength" backup solutions like arkeia out
> there?
Do you mean "industrial strenght" or "industrial GUI"? :)
> I got my quote for arkeia
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Brian D. Haymore wrote:
Hi,
> > I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-)
Hehe, i'll take the oportunity also to ask a couple things ;)
> > My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I
> > sus
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Pat Heath wrote:
Hi,
> I was working on doing the autostart for raid0 and the part where it says:
>
>
> 3. The partition-types of the devices used in the RAID must be set to
> 0xFD (use fdisk and set the type to ``fd'')
>
> is confusing because I don't have
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Oscar Fernández Cantero wrote:
Hi,
> This is just to tell that with almost the same configuration
> which has been described (Mylex Extremeraid, 4 Cheetahs of third
> generation), the only difference being that I use raid 0 and the
> system is a Dell Poweredge 6300 wi
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote:
Hi,
> > Yo have two chances: either compile RAID support in the kernel, or
> > make a initrd image. All support needed to autodetect the RAID (IDE, SCSI,
> > RAID, whatever) must be available at booting time.
>
> I am using RH 6.0 and
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote:
Hi,
> I just joined this list, so please be patient. I have a hundred
> questions but I will try to dribble in them a few at a time.
On http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ you have just
what you're looking for :)
> First, h
Hi,
I forgot to mention this on the previous message: for the curious,
I've put a huge (so that chips labels and such could be easily read) pic
of the controller (about 200k) on
http://raudo.dhis.org/aha2940uwpro-high.jpg
Thanks in advance,
*---(*)---***
Hi,
Guess this is a somewhat "tangencial" topic, but I know people on
this list are very SCSI-knoweable, and I'm desperado...
Of course, this controller is needed to build a SW RAID ;)
Adaptec now sells only the AHA2940 UW Pro (note the *Pro*, as it
means all si
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Raid wrote:
Hi,
> Red Hat, just for security if one fails. I have read the Software-RAID
> HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID.html but while it
> is very informative regarding the various technical issues, I can't find
> anywhere where it actual
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello -- there is a lot of confusing and incorrect howto's, etc. out there.
> I was using raid0 with kernel 2.2.5 just fine. I have upgraded the
> kernel to 2.2.12 in an effort to solve a SMP kernel gen problem, and I can
> not get raid0 to work at
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote:
> Installing this card in a Linux server, but disk initialization is
> slw. Has anyone had any experience with it? It's been working for 9
> hours now, increasing the %complete by one very slowly...
I assume the SCSI chain is properly terminat
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Robert (Drew) Norman wrote:
> The best way to do a copy and make sure it all works is like this:
>
> find . -print | cpio -pdmv
Yes, it's the best way! but better use -pdamvu for cpio params...
cheers,
*---(*)---**
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Joao Rochate wrote:
Hi!
> Sorry if this isn't best fit on this list :/
It fits :)
> The question here is:
> * If I have a software RAID enabled system and my server fails, I can
> move all the disks to another server and use the same /etc/raidtab to
> get
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Duncan Grove wrote:
Hi,
> I was running 4x9GB SCSI disks as a raid-0 /dev/md0 under redhat-5.2
> (I was using kernel 2.2.3). I upgraded the sytem to redhat-6.0 (with the
> standard modular 2.2.5 kernel), and things fell over. I tried running
> mkraid --upgrade bu
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Russ Hughes wrote:
Hi,
> I'm looking for an archive of this list and/or recomendations for scsi
> pci hardware raid controller card(s). I am going to be building a cache
> and a news server (intel boxes) and want to use raid0 across 4x9gig ultra
> wide drives.
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, David Robinson wrote:
Hi,
> If you put lilo in the MBR (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I don't
> think you need to make the root partition bootable using fdisk as LILO
> runs from the MBR before even the partitions get looked at.
It depends on the compute
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, John Maag wrote:
Hi,
> I issued a mkraid /dev/md0 with a mdtab set up for a simple mirror. What
> do I need to do to keep the mirror active upon reboots. It seems to
> forget about it. Also probably related to this, I cannot mount /dev/md0
> upon bootup.
It
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Till Mommsen wrote:
Hi,
> > I guess this is surely due to disks/controller (won't you be using
> > IBM disks?) but certainly, you had luck in being able to build a raid with
> > that config. Guess that the spare-disk wrong option went unadverted to the
> > *picky
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Rlas Kotowski wrote:
hi,
> I just installed Raid Level-1, it seems to run fine, I can start it, mount
> it, transfer files, etc..
>
> however, the riad gets autodetected, started and the STOPPED at boot time,
> after the entire boot process is over and I'm logged in
Hi,
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from
> the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this:
> DPT
> ICP Vortex
And as people have noted, Mylex. I had to recommend one for a
cus
On Thu, 27 May 1999, James O'Kane wrote:
Hi,
> I setup a raid 5 with 5 18G disks. 3 for data, 1 for parity and one hot
> swap. This config file I used is:
What? go read
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html.
Using raid without really undesrtanding w
Hi,
First, I apologize for the "little" offtopic. But I, like most of
you (if not you weren't on this list :) care for the redundancy of my
important data.
Raids protects against disk failure, UPS against power failure, and
backups (scsi-data-corrupters controllers apart) again
On Tue, 11 May 1999, m. allan noah wrote:
[...]
> had to sync and the fs had to check. that took a while. the problem may
> have been this is a dual proc (ppro 180) machine, and one of the cpu's
> stopped working! mut the raid, and knfsd and ypserv running on this box
> continued to work, it was
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, James O'Kane wrote:
Hi,
> I stumbled through the setup of our raid and it was working smoothly. So
> then I wanted to test how things would recover from a failed disk. To
> simulate a failed disk I did a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 which
> effectively crashed the ra
Hi, I happen to came across a couple of statements that somewhat
involves the use of RAID, statements that I believe are not absolutely
correct, if not false, or half truths.
Both come from sources I believe to be respectable, but.. who
knows...
First: On Philip Greenspu
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Abed M. Hammoud wrote:
Hi,
> I am trying to get raid level one working on my machine. I have
> installed
>
> raidtools-0.50beta10-2
>
> and I have enabled the raid as a module in my kernel.
>
> The output of the df command is:
>
> /dev/hda1 54410 2
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Michael wrote:
Hi,
> > > The reason is that on a master-slave setup, the slave disc is controlled
> > > by the master. If on a [hda-hdc]+[hdb-hdd] raid 0+1 the master device of
> > > *any* IDE controller fails, the slave will inmediatly fail also (I'd bet
> > > it su
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Ted Byrd wrote:
Hi,
>>> by the master. If on a [hda-hdc]+[hdb-hdd] raid 0+1 the master device
>>> of *any* IDE controller fails, the slave will inmediatly fail also
>>> (I'd bet it surelly will happen if it's the slave who fails, so this
>>> statement could be widene
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
Hi,
> Hm , I have not the possibilty to set up a hw-raid and mostly not the
> time to do so in order for testing and comparisons, but I have a
> suggestion towards hw- and sw-raids.
> I am using sw-raids on systems like you described with just m
Hi,
- Suppose you have all the raid discs on hot-swapable removable
kits.
- Suppose you use an active terminator hooked on the last cable
connector.
- Suppose you have a *non* hot-swap capable controller.
Will it be possible to hot-swap discs? I mean,
Hi,
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:55:21PM +0100, Piete Brooks wrote:
> > I'm a fan of SW RAID (a motherboard with 3 LVD busses, 2 EIDE busses,
> and 1 W > bus kind of satisfies our disk IO requirements), but I've
> being pressured to > buy so
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Stein Gjoen wrote:
Hi,
> In the Multi Disk HOWTO there are already some notes on
> optimum use of disks and RAID levels that you might find
> of interest.
> http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.html
>
> All feedback is welcome; I wrote it.
I have a little s
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Joe Beauchamp wrote:
> If you got 2.0.35, 36 or 2.2.3 or 2.2.5 of slackware to work (I'm using the
> v36 cdrom for the rest of the system), then please tell me your secret.
> How did you get it set up? So far as the force switch goes, don't you
> think that if I went to the
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
Hi,
> > - Did you marked the raid partitions as type 'fd'? (stop the raid
> > before doing that)
>
> I asked this question some time ago, but get no answer: how to mark them as
> type fd?
> Can you send the whole command line?
yo
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I created a raid-0 device as follows:
>
> 1. partitioned 4 disks
> 2. configured /etc/raidtab
> 3. ran mkraid /dev/md0 -> everything reported fine
> 4. ran mke2fs /dev/md0 -> everything went well
> 5. mounted /dev/md0 to verify thin
Also, will autodetection work for the 0 + 1 one?
> Francisco Jose Montilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have just forgoten a couple questions:
> >
> > I have followed the steps to enable autodetection of the raids,
&
Hi,
I have just forgoten a couple questions:
I have followed the steps to enable autodetection of the raids,
but it doesn't work. I compiled raid support as modules
Any advice?
*---(*)---**-->
Francisc
Greetings to everybody...
I've been setting up linux RAID (mainly 0, 1 or 5) for a while,
always on servers with UWSCSI discs, kernel 2.0.36, and I'm willing to
discuss performance issues, interchange opinions and such.
I have read both old and new Software-RAID howtos
Hi,
> I have an raid5 setup with an Adaptec 2940UW, 5 disks, kernel 2.2.5,
> raidtools 0.9
>
> yesterday my system crashed and after booting the system trys to reconstruct
> the raid in the background as usual in those situations.
>
> Only one thing is different: the reconstructions ea
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Shoggoth wrote:
Hi,
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> [Very Good stuff snipped]
> > - and raid level 0 sets for disk2 and disk4, as you don't care about
> > redundancy w/ index files (you can easily recreate them). I don&#
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