Re: my sunday afternoon nightmare (raid crash)

1999-11-22 Thread Lauri Tischler
"Roeland M.J. Meyer" wrote: > > Around here, the SysAdmins do not buy the gear, the platform architects do. I would _really_ hate to work in environment where a 'platform architect' is a suit dominated by marketing droids. -- Lauri Tischler, Network Adm

Re: my sunday afternoon nightmare (raid crash)

1999-11-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Markus Schulte wrote: > > Lauri Tischler wrote: > > Pinching of pennies is not worth the pain. > > hmm.. i tend to take that personal. Dont, it is just my opinion :) > eh. btw to finally insure our storage we just bought an overland lxb > 7000. pinching of pennies eh.

Re: my sunday afternoon nightmare (raid crash)

1999-11-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Markus Schulte wrote: > > you find me deeply impressed, agitated and really touched by the > TREMENDOUS reaction on my former mail. > > first: the raid is back it is running in degraded mode now. but it's > back. > > you all have been great: Good, you were lucky. Maybe you should think of goin

FDisk 2.9

1999-11-13 Thread Lauri Tischler
Where can I find fdisk 2.9 Preferably as deb Mylex dac requires 2.9 cheers.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Whut? Whut? Suuurfff.. *

Re: mini root-RAID5-howto

1999-10-22 Thread Lauri Tischler
Thomas Waldmann wrote: > > Sounds logical. Maybe the RAID docs should be changed to reflect that - they > advise you that "striping isn't necessary as swap subsystem does that anyway" > (that's correct, but only a matter of speed). It all depends on what kind of security you want. If you only wa

Re: mini root-RAID5-howto

1999-10-22 Thread Lauri Tischler
perly you need to make raid-device from your swap-partitions too. Cheers.. -- Lauri Tischler, Network Admin Tel:+358-9-47846331* Mouse movement detected * Fax:+358-9-47846500* Reboot Windows to activate changes * Mobile: +358-40-5569010 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE mirroring controller?

1999-10-16 Thread Lauri Tischler
Tom Livingston wrote: > > Software raid might be a better choice for you... For 'real storage' like /usr /var /home /swap etc.. yes. for /boot /root even relatively slow device might do, as long as it is hardware-raid and reliable -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Whut? Whut? Suuurfff.. *

Re: IDE mirroring controller?

1999-10-15 Thread Lauri Tischler
w/products.asp it is discontinued -- Lauri Tischler, Network Admin Tel:+358-9-47846331* Mouse movement detected * Fax:+358-9-47846500* Reboot Windows to activate changes * Mobile: +358-40-5569010 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID controllers under Linux...

1999-10-14 Thread Lauri Tischler
Andy Poling wrote: > > I now know that cheap hardware RAID is perhaps not such a good idea... you > may very well get just what you paid for... So it seems, Mylex AcceleRaid 250 _will_ do nicely, not really cheap but will work, I've been using Mylex Raids on our Netware servers for years. It ap

Re: RAID controllers under Linux...

1999-10-14 Thread Lauri Tischler
ible, just two ide-disks mirrored ? -- Lauri Tischler, Network Admin Tel:+358-9-47846331* Mouse movement detected * Fax:+358-9-47846500* Reboot Windows to activate changes * Mobile: +358-40-5569010 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redhat 6.1 RAID: what's different

1999-10-07 Thread Lauri Tischler
's is quite useless when installing small boxes, routers etc. thats why i prefer debian (no flames, plse). no tools is better than tools which prevent setting up proper (small) system. there is allways vi :) Cheers.. -- Lauri Tischler, Network Admin Tel:+358-9-47846331* Mouse

add raid-disk

1999-09-27 Thread Lauri Tischler
I have one 9 gb disk as /home, is it possible to make raid-1 from /home by adding disk and NOT destroying the original disk. -- Lauri Tischler, Network Admin Tel:+358-9-47846331* Mouse movement detected * Fax:+358-9-47846500* Reboot Windows to activate changes