Re: Getting notifications when the RAID device fails

1999-06-02 Thread Tony Wildish
Hi, On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Tal Lichtenstein wrote: > I would like to configure my system to send me a notification when the raid > device goes into degraded mode (or when any other error occurs). There's a script on the web that will do this for you. The URL is http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Rai

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

1999-03-31 Thread Tony Wildish
Hello, this sound to me like bad memory. I had a very similar problem recently and it was a bad SIMM. I was lucky enough to have four SIMMS in the machine so I can still run with only two, having removed the bad SIMM and its partner. Two suggestions: Try booting with the 'mem=xxxM' option t

Re: mkraid and other weirdness

1999-03-18 Thread Tony Wildish
Hi, On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Piete Brooks wrote: > > - fdisk your disks to remove the partitions that will be in the raid. > > Completely remove them, don't just change the partition type. > > - reboot. > > - fdisk your partitions into existence, with type 'fd' as advertised in > > the doc. Do not r

Re: mkraid and other weirdness

1999-03-17 Thread Tony Wildish, exts 77103 / 71207
Hello, > [root@xx raidtools-0.90]# mkraid --force /dev/md0 > DESTROYING the contents of /dev/md0 in 5 seconds, Ctrl-C if unsure! > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4188937kB, raid superblock at 4188864kB > disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4188937kB, raid superblock a