Re: Software RAID1 problems/questions

re out is that the patches on kernel.org stop at 2.2.11. Even the raidtools pointer is dead in the kernel docs. > Tamas. > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Robert Dale wrote: > > > > > Hello. > > > > To start, I installed RedHat 6.1 with root on RAID1. /boot is n

Software RAID1 problems/questions

hdc10 > Oops! md0 not running, giving up! hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 hdc9 hdc10 > Oops! md0 not running, giving up! Bad md_map in ll_rw_block EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock Oops! md0 not running, giving up! Bad md_map in ll_rw_block isofs_read_super: bread f

Hot Swapping disks (only somewhat on topic)

ssing? If not, I do not think "hot-swap" drives work very well with linux, since any change in the disks requires rebooting. Granted I did not have to power the machine off/on, but I do seem to have to reboot. Perhaps I am just miss-understanding the meaning of "hot-swap". Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

RE: Raid level 0 on an SMP Sparc 20

the search path and the file is indeed in that directory. I do not see why the header file is not being found. The "make depend" ran without error. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Raid level 0 on an SMP Sparc 20

now...:( Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: resyncing takes forever again

blocks [2/1] [_U] recovery=28% finish=6126.7min md1 : active raid1 sdf1[1] sdc1[0] 17775808 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: Thanks -- Robert Stuart Systems Administrator ph: 3864 0364

resyncing takes forever again

2.10 with new-raid-style patches applied, auto-detection > activated and a persistent superblock. > I saw this with clean 2.2.14, mingo's 2.2.14-B1 patch, RAIDTOOLS-19990824-0_90_TAR.GZ, autodetect enabled raid in the kernel (not a module). > Any hints? > > Thanks, Thomas -- Robert Stuart Systems Administrator ph: 3864 0364

Re: Problem setting up a raid0 with raidtools-0.90-6 and redhat-6.2

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Harry Zink wrote: > on 5/20/00 9:11 AM, Robert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am probably doing something silly, put when applying the patch, lots > > of the hunks seem to get rejected. Any ideas? > > Did you: > > patch -p0 > ??

Re: Problem setting up a raid0 with raidtools-0.90-6 and redhat-6.2

t these patches? Neither the one for 2.2.14 nor the one for 2.2.15 on this site seems to work for me. Both reject *lots* of hunks (but not all). Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: Problem setting up a raid0 with raidtools-0.90-6 and redhat-6.2

000 17:22 does not seem to be able to be patched using http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.15-A0 19-May-2000 18:07 I am probably doing something silly, put when applying the patch, lots of the hunks seem to get rejected. Any ideas? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: /etc/raidtab lost

: "cannot determine md version: No such file or directory" It certainly would be better if the error messages where more descriptive. On Tue, 16 May 2000, Robert wrote: > I should probably add that the RAID areas are not system areas. They > contain data only, not any operating system f

Re: /etc/raidtab lost

I should probably add that the RAID areas are not system areas. They contain data only, not any operating system files. On Mon, 15 May 2000, Robert wrote: > Not sure why, but last night my /etc and /var and /bin directories > dissappeared. Not sure if it was a bug, or some hacker who

/etc/raidtab lost

directory # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] read_ahead not set unused devices: Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

dump segmentation fault on RAID 0+1 partition

I am running Red Hat 6.1 on this particular computer which appears to have raidtools v0.90, etc . . . all the latest working patches. I had two mirrored partitions that were 8 & 6GB and we needed a 14GB partition. Rather than repartitioning the disks (and having to reinstalling the system), I

Software RAID1

hat will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Robert Hélie

Re: Swap on Raid1 : safe on EIDE disks ? =no hangs ?

- Your system will probably give some alarms at startup ("fs type raidswap not in kernel" or so), but just don't mind. It's a quick hack (no check for swapping priority et al), but works fine for me. Regards, Robert

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

well. Thank you! Indeed this fixes the kernel panic problem. I already tried the combinations (losing disk 1, recovering from disk 2 and vice versa) and it runs perfectly smooth. Regards, Robert

WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

buggy. This posting also includes a patch, but seriously: I'm not the man to try a patch which seems to remove a whole function. :-) Regards, Robert

X windows

o the impossible, or is there a trick to making this work? Also, does anyone have a recommendation for a MS Windows Xserver, or is NCD the best choice? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: disks lose label at reboot, killing md device with "bad magic". Help!

newer HOWTO at ostenfeld.dk. -Robb On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:28:39AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > try starting all your partitions at cyl 1 instead of 0. (ie- leave first cyl > unused) > > allan > > > Robert Dubinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > &

disks lose label at reboot, killing md device with "bad magic". Help!

Hi, I'm trying to set up a RAID-0 device over three disks in a Sparc Storage Array with RedHat 6.1/SPARC, but am having a problem. I searched the archives of this list and couldn't find a solution or a thread on this particular problem. mkraid works fine, as well as the formatting and mounting

Re: enlarging a RAID-0

to reload everything from the backups if I had started over from scratch. I still need to run ext2resize to enlarge the file system, I hope that goes as well! Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jakob Østergaard wrote: > But anyways, I'm very happy you decided to give it a

HPT366 boot problem

speed=0x%02x(%s), drive%d, old=0x%08x, new=0x%08x, err=0x%04x\n", Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Drop the latest stuff from > ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ > and see if that helps.

Re: Performance?

n I was before. I assume the BE6 motherboard will be increasingly popular for linux use, so I hope a better fix will be eventually forthcoming. I want to thank everyone who made suggestions and offered encouragement. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tim Niemueller wrote: > Robe

Re: Performance?

attached to either ide3 or ide4. I would be very leary of HPT366 at this stage. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Tim Niemueller wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to build up an array of four IBM DJNA 15 GB harddisks on an Abit > PE6 with ATA/66 Controller. The array shou

Re: RAID0 performance odditity

d. I believe that the BP6 board was the one Andre used when developing the code. One person wrote saying the BP6 uses "NJ" bios, on the last boot I watched carefully and my bios says it's "Award Modular 4.51PG" bios. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Michael Tra

Re: RAID0 performance odditity

T just tried making the same change on my system to see if it would help me. But the symptons stayed the same. If a drive is attached to IDE3 or IDE4 channels, the system locks up during bootup. One difference I am using the BE-6 motherboard. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Wed, 8 Dec 1999

HPT366 prevents boot on Abit BE-6 (probably not raid related)

the call is made: drive->name = hde speed = 0x44 The subroutine ide_config_drive_speed() is part of ide.c Best Regards, Robert Laughlin -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:04:10 -0500 (EST) From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tim Moor

HPT366 prevents boot on Abit BE-6 (probably not raid related)

ive, speed); It looks safe to rule out the 1st one. Anyone have any suggestions as to what is going wrong, or how to fix it? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: HELP, switched disks !!

e before and as he say fsck started, > >it failed and asked for root password. >What should be done in such a situation ? Well, type in the root password. Then cat /proc/mdstat and post what's in there. Also post /etc/raidtab and 'fdisk -l' for your disks. Regards, Robert

Re: Trouble autodetecting at boot

nel to load those modules from while not having anything mounted? :-) Rebuild your kernel with the md parts resident and it won't fail anymore. Regards, Robert

Re: Help Raid for sparc

James, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:26:19 -0800 (PST), Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > I vote for maintaining the Doc's , [...] And do you volunteer to? :-) Regards, Robert

Re: File sizes > 2Gb

eed mmap, there is a spacial filesystem called smugfs which allows large files on 32bit, I don't have URL handy however. - Regards, Robert. -- Robert Collier Windows 2001: "I'm Sorry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave, I can't do that."

Re: New user troubles: (1) booting (2) size?

label=linux root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-22.img read-only >The second problem is more serious: the RAID data are slightly corrupt >(no proper shutdown before a system reboot), As already suggested: Use the new RAID style (partition type 0xfd) and the kernel will automatically shutdown the RAID devices. Regards, Robert

Re: booting from second drive.

Luis, On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:00:43 -0500 (EST), Luis Costabile wrote: >Thanks Robert. I'm now able to boot from the boot partition of the >second drive. Well, that's what we wanted. :-) >One question, where do you find out that sdb is supposed to be bios=0x80 > w

Re: booting from second drive.

d /dev/sdd. You will be out of the game whenever you loose sda or sdb ... Regards, Robert

Re: adding/removing linear raid drives

>*growing* filesystems. You're out of luck for shrinking. That's not _my_ experience. I tried it last weekend with what I found on http://www.dsv.nl/ ~buytenh/ext2resize (1.0.5 or so) and it happily shrinks ext2 filesystems. Regards, Robert

Abort

ions.The second problem the mkraid write that the partitions consist ext2. What can i do??? Help me! ZSIGA ROBERT Lakcim: Berettyoujfalu E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoldfa u. 37. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Replacing a RAID-1 mirror drive

file system, and restore all the files >by >hand? You have to fdisk /dev/sdd (remember to set the partition type fd on /dev/sdd1), reboot your system, then do raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 Regards, Robert

RE: [new release] raidreconf utility

> From: Jakob Østergaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:56 PM > To: Linux RAID mailing list > Subject: Re: [new release] raidreconf utility > > > My only experience with LVM is from HPUX. I could create the > equivalent of RAID-0 > there using LVM only, and i

RE: ide and hot swap

> Seth Vidal wrote: > > We've got DLT's doing backups right now and we're conceiving > that it might > be cheaper to setup a system with 2 or 3 linear striped or > raid 0 34+gig > ide disks and have 2 sets of these disks that we swap out > week to week for > backups - rather than spend a fortu

RE: superblock Q/clarification

> David Cooley wrote: > > When I first set up my Raid 5, I made the partitions with Fdisk, and > started /dev/hdc1 at block 0, the end was the end of the disk (single > partition per drive except /dev/hdc5 is type whole disk). > It ran fine until I rebooted, when it came up and said there > w

Re: IP Networking Consultant Wanted for stack port

leasing the derived IP stack code. Robert

IP Networking Consultant Wanted for stack port

, directly to my email address. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: Web site on IDE patch status

what the next step is. Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > In order to get the off board cards to boot you have to enable the option > first, now comes the FUN! > > You are now required to determine the PCI card slot order. &g

Web site on IDE patch status

m time to time, to see the current status of your efforts and the latest patches and what they address: Here is the web address I am using at the moment, is there a better one? ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ Best Regards, Robert Laughlin On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Andre Hedr

RE: Compaq Smart Array & RH6.1

>Hardware RAID help, please. Thanks. > >I have a Compaq ProLiant 2500 Server using 2x PPro200mhz, 128MB RAM, >Compaq SmartArray 2/E EISA Card with 2x 4.3G and 1x 2.0G HotSwappable HD. >but I cannot install RedHat 6.1 or SuSE 6.2, they both cannot see my Smart 2/E. >Under RedHat 6.1, I tried to

RE: RedHat 6.1 Upgrade

. >2. The RAID stuff is only supported in the GUI install, not text. I had a partial(?) GUI install. I started with their boot image in images. Thanks you all for the help so far. >> -Original Message- >> From:Gerrish, Robert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>

RedHat 6.1 Upgrade

I am trying to install RedHat 6.1 as an upgrade. The install recofnizes my RAID1 drives as "Linux RAID", but when I do an upgrade, it tells me that I have no linux partitions and it can't proceed. Has anyone got a work around for this. The only solution I could see was perhaps installing on the

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

gards, Robert Laughlin On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Seth Vidal wrote: > > Perhaps I am wrong, I expected that a reboot would make the original /lib > > available again at boot time. The data is still there, just hidden by the > > mount, right? > > mounting only occurs after

Re: moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

there, just hidden by the mount, right? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

moving /lib - off topic advice wanted

e I enter these commands? Is there a better way to enlarge /? In general how to you recommend changing partition sizes? Is this an argument for not seperating directories into different partitions, since it's harder to keep the free space evenly distributed? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

RE: how to re-introduce a spare?

> Michael Franzino wrote: > >I'm new to Linux and this discussion group so >please be patient. I'm fairly new to this group, also, but I have had considerable experience with RAID 1 on Sun OS & Solaris. > . . . It is the three >SCSI drives that make up the mirrored pair >plus one spare. I

Problems with HPT366

quot;user unknown". Does anyone know how to get in touch with him, or an alternate contact point for this problem? Best Regards, Robert Laughlin

Re: raidtools kernel patch

Well, That's interesting, if I apply the patches in the opposite order, they work. Perhaps we need a road map as to what order patches need to be applied in? Best Reagrds, Robert On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Robert wrote: > Hm, those 2.2.11 raid patches did not work for me. After appl

Re: raidtools kernel patch

But after then applying the patch raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 the compile failed as shown above. Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions, ideas ? Thanks in advance, Robert On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Marc Haber wrote: > In ka.lists.linux.raid, you wrote: > >I run a 2.2.12 kernel. Is the 2.2.11

Kernel panic in Raid...

I got the following error on my redhat 6.1 linux box. It appears that something is wrong with the raid code in the kernel? I recieved a similar message on a separate machine yesterday running 2.2.10. Please advise. --Drew Oct 13 12:12:30 dhcp-rtp-34-118 kernel: Unable to handle kernel pagi

autodetect help needed

I need some help getting autodetect working. I've tried everything and am probably just missing some little piece. I am running Mandrake 6.0. I have a custom kernel, 2.2.12 with the raid0145 patch set and raidtools 0.90 (and lvm support). Raid is set up in the kernel with the CONFIG_MD_BOOT=

HPT366 & DMA mode

s in advance for any suggestions or ideas or pointers, Robert

Re: raid as modules?

what version of RAID is in my kernel? I have two RAID partitions, which both appear to be working. As to the tools, I get this: /root> mkraid --version mkraid version 0.90.0 /root> raidstart --version raidstart v0.3d compiled for md raidtools-0.90 /root> raidstop --version raidstop v0.3d compiled for md raidtools-0.90 Best Regards, Robert

RE: undocumented error from /proc/mdstat: read_ahead not set

I was trying that . . . using raidtools 0.90 without patching the kernel. I finally got smart earlier today and download the kernel patches, and now it works well. I was getting exactly the same error messages. A lot of the documentation implies that the newer kernels support RAID as is, espec

Re: RAID-0 or RAID-linear on Redhat 6.0

e disk that has the 10 gigs on it needs to be part of that raid-0. Best Regards, Robert On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Paul VanDyke wrote: > I got my stuff to work... I had to change some things in my /etc/raidtab > file... > > What is your situation?? Give details on your /etc/raidtab file and disk > layouts.. > > Paul >

RAID-0 or RAID-linear on Redhat 6.0

dvance for any assistance, Robert raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 4096 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0

Patch and raid tools for 2.2.12

The latest kernel patch and raid tool combination I found on ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha was for the 2.2.11 kernel. Where might I find the 2.2.12 kernel patches? Thanks, Robert E. Lee Sun Enterprise Certified Engineer Network Engineer, Access GEITD Work Phone: (303) 544-6519

mkraid fails while creating a new raid 0 array

Hi, I'm using RedHat 6.0 on a Pentium II system. It has three scsi-harddisks. I use the first one to boot the systems and want to create a raid on the two other disks. I've created an /etc/raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 0 nr-raid-disks 2 pers

Yet Another RAID0 question...

Hi -   I'm having difficulty getting software RAID0 to work on the following configuration: /dev/hda    - / partition, contains all boot, system files. /dev/hdb    - disk 1 of RAID0 /dev/hdc- hardlinked to /dev/cdrom /dev/hdd    - disk 2 of RAID0   Both drives are Western Digital 18

No Subject

Does anyone know how far ext3 is off? Also I heard SGI had released thiercode for journaling? Is this to be adopted into ext3?CheersRob

Re: seeking advice for linux raid config

quite correct. The maximum filesize is 2 GByte on a 32bit system. If you have an alpha or (possibly sparc64?) then you can have much larger files. This is due to 32bit limits in the vfs (IIRC). It's also planned to be fixed in 2.3 to allow large file access on 32bit machi

problems with raidtools 0.90

I am having trouble bringing up a raid 0 volume. I followed the instructions in Jakob OEstergaard's document and read the man pages, but I am still getting problems. When I run the mkraid I get the following output: [root@ahab /etc]# /sbin/mkraid --really-force /dev/md0 DESTROYING the content

resource

Is there a resource that provides info on the latest raidtools. I can't seem to get a raid 0 device up with the 0.90 tools. I had no problems with the 0.3d tools. Thanks, Rob Jones -- Rob Jones, Network Administrator, Dublin,

Re: RAID under 2.2.10

mailing list... Is raid with 2.2.10 a matter of applying the 2.2.6 raid patches, and adding that code above? What are the "AC" patches? Is the fix in the second paragraph above required? What are good sites for raid info - can I find digests of this list anywhere? Thanks for your help. -- Robert Stuart Ph 61-7-3864 0364

RAID 0 performance, SCSI & IDE

Hi. I was wondering if I am getting degraded performance because I am using both IDE & SCSI disks in my software raid0 array, over the performance I would get if I used only SCSI disks. Here's the setup: md0 : active raid0 sdb1 sda1 hda7 3084032 blocks 256k chunks /dev/hda: Model=WDC AC28400

Re: Patching kernel for RAID.

cat raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 | patch -p0 --Drew On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Mark Beck wrote: > Guys, > > Ive downloaded 2.2.6 kernel, and now trying to patch > "raid0145-19990421-2.2.6". > > [root@lisc0002 src]# ls -l > total 394 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 11 16:18 linux -> linu

Re: Raid on Kernel 2.2.9

I have raid running with kernel 2.2.9-ac4. I had to go about it in the following manner: untar kernel. Apply ac4 patch. Apply raid0145-19990421-2.2.6 Apply the following patch for the failed patch of raid0145-1999 (I had to manually apply it, it wouldn't install itself for some reason)

Re: Success!

The best way to do a copy and make sure it all works is like this: find . -print | cpio -pdmv --Drew Norman On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, m. allan noah wrote: > cp -a most assuredly works. gets me where i am going every time :) > > allan > > > Chris Jester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I alway

Re: raid 5 problems in 0.90 (fwd)

Just my $0.02. I have been using IBM SCSI drives in linux software raids for the past year. I haven't seen any problems, and I think they are my favorite drives. But that might just be my luck. I am running them in 3 or 4 different raid arrays. --Drew On Mon, 31 May 1999, Francisco Jose Mon

Re: Raid problems.

I would like to thank everyone for helping me solve my RAID problems. With the kernel patch everything seems to work ok now. I see great increases in speed over the raid-0.50 I was running before. I was attempting to use a single disk as a raid because I was testing it before i put it on a prod

RE: RAID0 and RedHat 6.0

ssage- From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 5:05 AM To: Robert McPeak Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RAID0 and RedHat 6.0 On Mon, 17 May 1999, Robert McPeak wrote: > Here are the relevant messages from dmesg: > hdd1's event counter: 000

RAID0 and RedHat 6.0

Hi -   I just installed RedHat 6.0, which appears to have the 0.90 version of the raidtools installed by default.  My boot disk is separate from the RAID.  I created a RAID0 spanning two 9gb drives, and it works fine, as long as I manually go in and to a raidstart and a mount after bootin

Raid problems.

I can not get raidtools-0.90 to work. I have attempted everything I know to do. I have used the raidtools-0.50 before with no problems. I am running the following: Redhat Linux 6.0 with 2.2.8 recompiled kernel. 448MB RAM raidtools-0.90 I have a IBM 9GB drive split into 3 partitions of equal s

Re: (Offtopic) Backup Systems

Re! On Thu, 13 May 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: > My question is: what combination of their use do you think is > better? more reliable? simpler? www.amanda.org It is used here on the network. - I have no experience with the software, but I will take it first, when I have a bette

One disk works more?

Hi! > cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 sdd1[1] sdc1[0] 17782528 blocks 16k chunks unused devices: Yesterday: sdc and sdd have only one partition, but the LED of sdd (and the hostadapter) lits up every half second - even if nothing is done on

Re: Server crash

Hi! On Wed, 5 May 1999, Paul Hancock wrote: > May 1 12:49:31 postal kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device md(9,0)): > ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 73716 > May 2 10:23:18 postal kernel: EXT2-fs error (device md(9,0)): > ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 8 not in group

Watchdog-problem [was: Raid crash and burn issues.]

Hi! On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alvin Starr wrote: > I tried to use the software watchdog on a system running with a raid1 root > [...] > At that point I was hung and had to perform a hard > reset. What is "cat /proc/sys/kernel/panic" saying? Bye, Rob

Re: Help with mirroring

Hi! On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Jason Speckman wrote: > I have kernel 2.2.5 with raid 1 compiled in, raidtools 0.90. I > want to mirror my /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 partitions. I already have > (problems.) [...] Have you patched the kernel? A patch is needed for raidtools. Check the FAQ and HOWTO

Re: Swap on raid

Hi! On 15 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AFAIK, the swap code uses raw file blocks on disk, rather than passing > through to vfs, cause you dont want to cache swap accesses, think about > it :) > > this is how swap can work on a partition or a file, cause at swapon > time, the blocks are

Re: Filesystem corruption (was: Re: Linux 2.2.4 & RAID - success report)

Hi! On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Brian Leeper wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Tony Wildish wrote: > > Try booting with the 'mem=xxxM' option to limit yourself to a small > > amount of RAM. If you are lucky then the problem is high enough in the > > memory that you can limit yourself to a good region and i

Re: Low performance on K6

Re! On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hardware: > 2 x IBM UltraStar 9ES 4.5 GB U2W > Adaptec 2940 UW > AMD K6 - 200 MHz > 64 MB RAM > > Each disk gives us around 11 MB/s using hdparm -t /dev/sd[ab] > > If we run hdparm -t /dev/sda & hdparm -t /dev/sdb, (two hdparm's

Re: RAID Docs

Re! On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Rolando Lopez wrote: > My name is Rolando and I downloaded raidtools-0.90 RPM from > >http://niteowl.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/raidtools-0.90-19990309.i386.html RPM? This shows again, that looking for *.tar.gz is the ultimate solution... (: > I'm wo

Please help with OLD Raid signature....

f? (My DLT backup is 2 months old and we need the data!) I promise to upgrade the machine's raid system after I get this data! Thanks for the help and advice! Bob. */ ------ WHO : Robert O'Kane WHERE : Künstlergruppe OTHERSPACE WHAT : Fou

mkraid aborted without comment [was: advice]

v/sdb1, 4441941kB, raid superblock at 4441856kB > disk 1: /dec/sdc1, 8883913kB, raid superblock at 8883840kB > mkraid: aborted Is the raid01445-19990309-2.2.3.gz patch applied? - Anyway, the HOWTO in raidtools-19990309-0.90.tar.gz is the most uptodate - I think so. Bye, Robert

Re: a newbie loser

is PGP-6.x signed mail (my too). Just look directly in your Mailbox as a temporarly solution ("less ~/mailbox"). Bye, Robert

Re: dev/md0: Invalid argument (?!)

odify the *.c on your own, this should be easy, because only the lines differs and things which are going to be removed are not completely the same. I will try this today with 2.2.2 (already patched, but not compiled...). Does it work now? Bye, Robert

Re: was: swapping to file doesn't work: swapon hangs ....

ities for usual swap-partitions), but why not with raid5? Or is the intention only to swap in a file... Bye, Robert

Re: Linux Ping problem

nux-profi in your town or look at www.linux.org for a mailinglist, which fits better that linux-raid. (!) Bye, Robert

RE: Compaq Smart Array & RH6.1

> From: Roeland M.J. Meyer on Friday, November 19, 1999 10:05 AM > For smilar price, one can buy ready-built Linux boxen from > . But, I've had excellent results > assembling my own servers as I need them. Most of them are > standardized on ATX cases, Asus motherboards, a

RE: Compaq Smart Array & RH6.1

> From: Matthew Clark > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:21 AM > > We are thinking about purchasing a Compaq Proliant 5500 - I > notice you were > both experiencing problems with the Smart RAID controller > under Linux. Can > I ask if these problems have been resolved and if you are > g

RE: errors on boot

complain with "disk not in array" if already removed) Now /dev/sdb4 should have vanished from /proc/mdstat raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdb4 back in /proc/mdstat, still with underscore, but recovery running. If this doesnt work, perhaps you should show us your /etc/raidtab and /proc/mdstat. Regards, Robert

RE: errors on boot

ll, you should not try to remove /dev/sda as its not part of /dev/md2. Try /dev/sda4 ... Regards, Robert

raidtools-0.50beta

o's? and I went to Miguel's site @ luthien.nuclecu.unam.mx/~miguel/raid and all I found in his directory was a GIF of some software probably gtk+ compliant I might add. If your out there please help! Thanks in advance! Robert B.

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