Promise FastTrak66

2000-05-26 Thread Thomas Seidel
I'm sure we discussed this before but I can't find the topics in the archive. Is the IDE HW Raid Promise FastTrak66 supported by linux and where can I get the drivers/tools from? Any support for SuSE 6.4 ?? Thanx Thomas

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Thomas Seidel
> > Here is the output of df -k: > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/md0 5916736 811879 4798422 14% / > > /dev/md1 3106031 41673 2903712 1% /var > > /dev/sda183561123 11922926 67127549 15% /dat

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Thomas Seidel
> > I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-) > > My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I > > suspect there must be something wrong with the compression. To verify this I > > need some additional information: > > How are you d

Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-21 Thread Thomas Seidel
I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-) My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I suspect there must be something wrong with the compression. To verify this I need some additional information: - What are the right dip switch s

Re: PATCH: / on RAID1

1999-09-09 Thread Thomas Seidel
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:40:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote: > > > > > This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it > > > calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions stil

Lilo and Root Mirroring (was: Software Mirroring and the root pa

1999-07-23 Thread Thomas Seidel
You're right. LILO doesn't like to install itself to a root raid1 partition (LILO: "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900"). On the other hand, the kernel image MUST be loaded from ONE of the mirrored devices. My way to solve this chicken-and-egg problem is described as followed: - cre

root raid1 support w/o initrd

1999-07-08 Thread Thomas Seidel
If you are interested in a very simple root raid1 support for kernel 2.2.x and raidtools 0.42 without the need of initrd, take a look at ftp://ftp.ddb.de/pub/linux/root_raid1_support/ You will find there a small patch for drivers/block/md.c to have raid1 setup for the root partition at boot tim

Re: Raid-1 problem -STILL

1999-06-29 Thread Thomas Seidel
Steve, create your raid definition file /etc/raidtab with # raid-1 configuration of device /dev/md1 raiddev /dev/md1 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc5 raid-disk 1 Then do a 'mkraid -f /etc/raidtab'. You will need th