Re: dump segmentation fault on RAID 0+1 partition

2000-04-29 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Gerrish, Robert wrote: The output of the dump command is: ... DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING! DUMP: SIGSEGV: ABORTING!

Re: DPT 2.2.14/15

2000-04-12 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Michael T. Babcock wrote: We are purchasing a DPT SmartRaid-4 Century controller with two channels for one of our servers. I realise that the drivers are 'out there', but could someone please give me a success report with 2.2.14 or whether they will be supported in 2.2.15

Re: Mylex config

2000-04-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: I'm wondering if I can swap drives from the dead box to the working one to conclude if I've got a broken controller, or broken drives. (Umm, I think the answer is obvious.) Hrm, personally I'd be *very* careful when mucking w/ your config in a

Re: Mylex ExtremeRAID 1100

2000-04-02 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Chris Mauritz wrote: Just thought you guys would find it amusing that this card worked just fine with vanilla Redhat 6.1, but gives blue screens with both NT4 and Win2K Server. Mylex swears it is a hardware issue and is the result of bugs in the Intel Carmel 840 chipset. I

Re: Benchmarking.. how can I get more out of my box?

2000-03-10 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian Pomerantz wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:38:29PM -0800, Michael wrote: Consider that the poor little controller chip on the raid card is vastly underpowered for what you are asking it to do in raw IO speed plus handling all the raid calculations. ... The "poor

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

2000-03-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally, I'd look for such things via the GUI scsi-config interface. Is there any way to access the mode pages for each disk while they're connected to the Mylex controller, or would I need to hook each drive to a traditional SCSI controller to do

Re: 16/02 Raid1 Benchmark

2000-03-03 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: tried averaging out the values to see if -Rstripe made any difference. ... As I understand it, the "stride" will only make a real difference for fsck by ordering data so it's (more) evenly spread over the array. This sounds correct and even

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

2000-03-01 Thread Ricky Beam
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Leon Brouwers wrote: Configuring Mylex DAC1164P PCI RAID Controller ... In raid 5 configuration, machine has PIII-450 128 Mb/256Mb swap on 2.2.14 + mingo's raid patches ?? "raid patches" ?? The controller presents a logic drive to the kernel as a block device (none of this