Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
ny to send and give it to you, since we are not going to use it any more. The above "bad tag" message covers a multitude of sins, sometimes including drives that become catatonic after a SCSI bus reset. * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-199

Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:35:22 +0200 From: Hubert Tonneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This a report about real production experiment using both Linux software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load, since more

Re: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000?

2000-04-20 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "List User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:03:01 -0500 I was wondering if anyone here knew the status on the drivers for the Mylex ExtremeRaid 2000 card. Are they in beta yet? In the next 1-2 months I'm going to need a new raid card and could really use

Re: Mylex config

2000-04-09 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 00:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this true even for different classes of Mylex cards? i.e. Can a system running an AcceleRAID 250 be upgraded to an ExtremeRAID (or vice versa) simply by replacing the RAID card without having to rebuild/reformat the

Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 250 dropped dead [2.2.14]

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 19:11:04 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, I erased the config data, reflashed everything (and included a flash update for the AstorII chassis backplane we were using) and am now in the process of bringing back my backup fr

Re: Mylex config

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:46:03 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again, and rebuild the configuration - with no problem?

Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 250 dropped dead [2.2.14]

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:27:39 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm trying to reflash the controller roms ATM and wondering what went wrong. I've been sitting here for a couple of hours with no sleep. :-) If this works, I'm starting to believe the firmware h

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-03-02 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:19:29 -0500 (EST) Those are some disappointing numbers. I've got: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Configuring Mylex DAC960PT

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-03-01 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:44:46 -0300 (BRT) From: Christian Robottom Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So my numbers aren't all that bad? I haven't tested a DAC960PG in quite some time, but your numbers didn't look too bad. Can I change the controller for another Mylex model and trust I won't ha

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
98-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller > Firmware Version: 4.06-0-08, Channels: 1, Memory Size: 4MB Try updating your firmware, it may help Configuring Mylex DAC1164P PCI RAID Controller Firmware Version: 5.07-

Re: Mylex Ultra3 Cards

2000-01-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:07:17 -0800 From: "Jon Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has anyone used the new ExtremeRAID or AccelRAID 352 on Linux with the DAC960 drivers? I run SuSE 6.3 on the Ultra2 and UW DAC, AccelRAD 250, and ExtremeRAID 1164, but thought I might ask before diving into

Re: Samba on Mylex AccelRaid150 (RAID5) for multimedia production?

1999-12-01 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 12:39:18 -0800 (PST) From: "Aaron D. Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On the same note, anyone know how the performance of the Flashpoint series cards are? For up to RAID 0+1, at $114 for the single channel wide model it seems a steal. It's only UW3 (40MB/s) but for

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
of the configuration messages: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Configuring Mylex DAC1164P PCI RAID Controller Firmware Version: 5.07-0-79, Channels: 2, Memory Size: 16MB PCI Bus: 2, Device:

Re: DAC960 and swap

1999-10-14 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:14:46 +0200 From: Vedad Kajtaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, i've purchased a DAC960 card, and i'm succesfully running it in raid1 mode with two scsi disks in hot swappable bays. The doc says it is possible to use a partition /dev/rd/cXdXpX as root disk, bu

Re: Mylex aceleraid boot problem

1999-09-30 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: Jean-Francois Boisvieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:54:29 +0200 (CEST) I've set up a kayak XU with an acceleraid from Mylex. I use Suse 6.1 since I've not been able to boot a debian boot disk (any help would be appreciated since I'm fond of debian). Everything

Re: DAC960 controller difficult?

1999-09-08 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "Kent Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:48:11 +0200 I've also got some questions concerning the Mylex 960: I've got a JBOD box with 5 Seagate Elite23 disks, which is connected to a Mylex DAC960 PG controller (channel 0). On channel 2 (internal) I've got 5

Re: harmless (?) error

1999-08-18 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:18:00 -0400 (EDT) From: James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FWIW, the eXtremeRAID 1100 cards are 64-bit PCI only (as are the ServeRAID cards in my previous testing). Other testing I've done has shown many situations where even our quad P6/200 machines (PC Serv

Re: Mylex dac960pg

1999-07-14 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "Kent Nilsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:42:39 +0200 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... The foreg

RE: aic7890 or 53c875?

1999-07-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "Stanley, Jeremy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:16:45 -0400 The Symbios Logic NCR-875 is quite impressive. I have an Antec external enclosure housing five HP C2490A drives (LVD SCSI-3) on an array ribbon, The C2490A is quite an old drive and definitely isn't SCSI-

Re: Failure of device - Hard vs. Soft

1999-06-12 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:42:12 +0100 From: Joao Rochate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * If I have a hardware RAID system and server fails (also the RAID controler) can I just move the disks to another server with the same RAID card model and have the system working back again? This depe

Re: bonnie stats for DAC960. need help: compare w/SW raid

1999-03-03 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: Chance Reschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/

Re: bonnie stats for DAC960. need help: compare w/SW raid

1999-03-03 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
have a DAC960: DAC960: ** DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.0 Beta4 of 13 January 1999 ** DAC960: Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DAC960#0: Configuring Mylex DAC960PG PCI RAID Controller DAC960#0: Firmware Version: 4.06-0-00, Channels: 2, Memory Size: 8MB DA

Re: Mylex acceleraid 250

1999-02-24 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:29:40 -0500 Hi folks, This could make a pretty good howto if it has a happy ending. I got a mylex dac960 card to drive an external rack with 5-9gb scsi drives. RH5.2 (2.0.36) already is installed, on an ide hard drive. Col

Re: Disk array partitions overlap!?

1999-01-27 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:53:50 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Frampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello! I've just installed a Mylex DAC960 controller driving 4 SCSI 9 Gb drives into an Red Hat 5.2 Intel-based Linux (2.0.36) server. After I built a custom kernel with the DAC960 2.0.0 bet