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

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Dahlem
Benno, On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 13:07:16 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: >I was wondering if this procedure (swapping on Raid1 + waiting for the resync), >is safe on an IDE only system ? >I don't need hot-swapping, the only thing I need is that if one disk dies, >swapping will not take down the disk (ha

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

2000-01-06 Thread Robert Dahlem
Ingo, On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:14:07 +0100 (CET), Ingo Molnar wrote: >> I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 >> together with kernel 2.2.14: at least in my configuration (two IDE >> drives with RAID-1, root on /dev/mdx) the kernel panics with "B_FREE >> inserted into

WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Robert Dahlem
Hi, I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 together with kernel 2.2.14: at least in my configuration (two IDE drives with RAID-1, root on /dev/mdx) the kernel panics with "B_FREE inserted into queues" at boot time. This seems to be some kind of a known problem, h

Re: HELP, switched disks !!

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
Chris, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:40:37 +0100, KS wrote: >We just had some memory added in our server that is on some remote location. >The guy also switched the disks that were in the raid1. >He connected them to wrong cables, when he realised that sth is wrong, >he connected them like before and a

Re: Trouble autodetecting at boot

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
David, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 03:03:35 -0800, David Cunningham wrote: >Here's the situation. I've read the Howto. I've got 2 EIDE disks running >RAID-1 under Redhat 6.0. The partition types are fd, the kernel option for >autodetecting RAID is set, and md0 was built with persistent superblock. >H

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
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: New user troubles: (1) booting (2) size?

1999-11-17 Thread Robert Dahlem
Stephen, On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:05:19 -0800 (PST), Stephen Walton wrote: >Well I'm a new convert to software RAID on Linux. The system I'm >presently using is a P-150 with Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, single SCSI >hard disk which is the boot drive, and a new pair of Western Digital >Caviar 20.

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-17 Thread Robert Dahlem
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 > what about sda ? sdb becom

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Dahlem
Luis, On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:49:07 -0500 (EST), Luis Costabile wrote: >Hello, I installed root as a mirrored volume. I have two SCSI disks only >in the system. According to the HOWTO it's suggested to have /boot reside >on a separate partition on each disk. I installed the kernels and other

Re: adding/removing linear raid drives

1999-11-11 Thread Robert Dahlem
Jakob, On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:55:56 +0100, Jakob stergaard wrote: >After a change you can mkraid the array again, and if you have an ext2 >filesystem on it, you can probably use ext2resize to resize that to fit >the new size of the array. Note however, that ext2resize only supports >*growing*

Re: Replacing a RAID-1 mirror drive

1999-11-10 Thread Robert Dahlem
Matt, On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:18:37 -0500, Matt Kimmel wrote: >I am running a RAID-1 mirror set of two disks on our Linux server here. A couple of >weeks ago, one of the mirrors went bad. While waiting for a replacement, I ran the >mirror with a single drive, which worked fine. However, now

RE: errors on boot

1999-01-16 Thread Robert Dahlem
Michel, On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:00:36 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote: >> >> > physical? The other two partions on the same drive work >> dandy with >> >> > their RAID, it looks like just this one partition on the >> >> drive is bad. >> >> > How, in a nutshell, do I fix this sucker? >> >> > >>

RE: errors on boot

1999-01-16 Thread Robert Dahlem
Michel, On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:24:15 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote: >> > physical? The other two partions on the same drive work dandy with >> > their RAID, it looks like just this one partition on the >> drive is bad. >> > How, in a nutshell, do I fix this sucker? >> > >> try raidhotremove /