Re: FAQ

2000-08-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Marc , On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Marc Mutz wrote: > Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > >2.4. How do I apply the patch to a kernel that I just downloaded from > >ftp.kernel.org? > >Put the downloaded kernel in /usr/src. Change to this di

Re: md0 won't let go... (dmesg dump...)

2000-05-17 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Harry, I noticed that on the higher IDE controller(s) are alternating 'PIO' drives . A suggestion , try placing these drives on just one controller OR not using them entirely . then try rebuilding using just the DMA capable ones . Just a possibilit

Re: md0 won't let go...

2000-05-10 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Harry, I probably missed this in the earlier flurry but which kermel version are you using & which raid patches ? Tia, JimL On Wed, 10 May 2000, Harry Zink wrote: > on 5/10/00 3:32 PM, James Manning at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are you claiming that /pro

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ingo, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > chunksize does have an important meaning in the linear case: it's > 'rounding'. We cannot change this unilaterally (it breaks backwards > compatibility), and it does make sense i believe. [certain disks serve > requests faster which h

Re: the 12 disk limit

1999-08-30 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Ingo , Yes, Yes, yes Thank you Ingo . more below . On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Lawrence Dickson wrote: > > >I guess this has been asked before, but - when will the RAID code get > > past the 12 disk limit? We'd even be willing to us

Re: raid-19990724-2.2.10 , Can this be applied to ...

1999-07-30 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Luca, On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Luca Berra wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 02:31:06PM -0700, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello All, Yesterday eve I attempted to apply the above > > patch after alan's ac12 , with (of course) 32 rejects . > >

raid-19990724-2.2.10 , Can this be applied to ...

1999-07-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, Yesterday eve I attempted to apply the above patch after alan's ac12 , with (of course) 32 rejects . most of considerable size . My question is , can the 0724 patches be applied to 11-2pre ? Has anyone else attempted this ? Tia, JimL

Re: Raid patch for 2.2.10/Anyone tried/tested yet?

1999-06-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Steve, There has not been an inclusion of the alpha drivers into this kernel release . I haven't attempted to apply the 2.2.6 raid patches (& I probably won't) to this kernel . Hth, JimL On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Steve Costaras wrote: > I saw that 2.2.10 wa

Re: Swap on raid

1999-04-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, Cool now when do we get the new alpha-lilo alpha-silo, alpha-milo tools to support the alpha-raid ? I know, I know, 'hack away...' tnx, JimL On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On 14 Apr 1999, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote: > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.28, 2.2.0/2.0.36

1999-02-03 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mingo & All, The small patch below makes raidtools to compile for me under 2.2.1 . Hth , JimL +---+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.28, 2.2.0/2.0.36

1999-01-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mingo, I have applied the 2.2.0 patch to 2.2.1 & have one .rej (mm/mmap.c.rej) not sure what to do with this one . The necessary change here is not obvious to me . The below '-' line in 2.2.1 now reads . unsigned long last = (end + PGDIR_SIZE -1) &

Re: most RAID crashproof setup = BOOT FROM FLOPPY DISK

1999-01-29 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Benno, On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Benno Senoner wrote: > Martin Bene wrote: > > At 16:17 29.01.99 +0100, you wrote: > > >assume I set up LILO to load the kernel off the first disk (where the > > >/boot dir resides too) > > > > > >when the first disk crashes , the system won't boot anymor

Re: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1999.01.08, 2.0.36/2.2.0-pre5

1999-01-11 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mingo, Hmmm, I had to edit 'drivers/block/genhd.c' after the patching to add the 'fifth' variable to the 'add_partition' calls . I also had to edit 'mkpv.c' in the '1214' raid-tools src's to get them to compile on my system, I replaced th

Re: halp in appliyng raid patches to 2.2.0pre4

1999-01-11 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All, I have been running 2.2.0-pre6 & the latest raid0145-*-pre6 patches all night . No problems yet . :-) I also had to compile up the latest tools , the previous were from Nov. or so . On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello > > i was tryi

Re: 19981110 release. [was: Re: kernel autostart not working]

1998-11-15 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Mingo, Find below a dmesg from a system trying to run 2.0.35 + 2.0.35-raid-19981110 + alan's-pre-22 + Gerards-53c8xx-3.1a patched in this order . The .rej's were from alan's patches being applied after the raid-patches , I did some manual patching f

Re: partition type not fe but "0xfd"

1998-10-25 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Craig , Try 'fd' not '0xfd' . Hth On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Craig W. Hansen wrote: > > > > this is my goof, it's not fe but "0xfd". > > > I tried this and the partition disappeared in fdisk. Any ideas? I'm > > using fdisk v2.1. > > [root