Re: Storage Manager for Linux

2000-06-29 Thread Mark Schafer
I had good success using 2.0.36 with a DPT2564 card using the drivers from the DPT website and following their installation instructions. Been working as a server for over a year with no problems. Don't know that much about the PM3224 cards though. Mark... David Livingstone wrote: >

Re: High load and raid reconstruction

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Schafer
I had an unexpected resync at one stage when I changed the system clock. Mark... Kirk Patton wrote: > > Hello, > > We have a linux box running 2.2.12-20 in a raid level 5 configuration. > > Today we had problems accessing the server. When I checked, the load > was up t

Reboot and RAID0

2000-03-24 Thread mark
mentions about changing the devices types to fd but I'm not totally sure on how to do this. Thanks Mark

Cant get Raid to work

2000-03-24 Thread mark
automatically ? Thanks for the help Mark

Re: AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 (428)

2000-02-29 Thread Mark Plaksin
Kevin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey there guys, got a question for you. I just received one of > these cards and it is basically a dual channel raid system. The problem > I am having is that RH6.1 recognizes the first drive and only the first > drive. Here is the config. We fixed

Re: [FAQ-answer] Re: soft RAID5 + journalled FS + power failure = problems ?

2000-01-12 Thread Mark Ferrell
any of these problems affect other, non-journaled filesystems > > too? Yes, 1) can: throughout the kernel there are places where buffers > > are modified before the dirty bits are set. In such places we will > > always mark the buffers dirty soon, so the window in which an incorre

Re: 2.2.14 + raid-2.2.14-B1 on PPC failing on bootup

2000-01-11 Thread Mark Ferrell
It is possible that the problem is a result of the raid code not beeing PPC friendly when concerning byte boundries. Open up linux/include/linux/raid/md_p.h At line 161 you should have something ressembling the following __u32 sb_csum; /* 6 checksum of the whole superblock */

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
Jakob Østergaard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:16:57PM -0600, Mark Ferrell wrote: > > You also have to remember that in most LVM implementations adding a device to the > > LVM does not add it to the raid. > [snip] > > "Oh look .. the 90G raid5 array is gett

Re: [new release] raidreconf utility

1999-11-02 Thread Mark Ferrell
gt; :.....: putrid forms of man: > : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : > :OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : > :.:{Konkhra}...: -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (972) 685-7868 : Desk (972) 685-4210 : Lab (972) 879-4326 : Pager

RE: Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
es for being short. I provide support myself so I certainly recognize the necessisity for brevity. Mark

Build in degraded mode?

1999-10-26 Thread Mark Spencer
ore posting. 2) Use my swap partition as one of the RAID drives. This seemed to be working, but I was afraid it would think I had a teeny-tiny RAID. 3) Commenting out one of the raid-disk entries (of course mkraid wouldn't run at all). Anyway, I'd greatly app

Re: 71% full raid - no space left on device

1999-10-20 Thread Mark Ferrell
e allocation..  Is there > one? Reiserfs does, doesn't it? --Stephen --  Mark Ferrell  : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (972) 685-7868 : Desk (972) 685-4210 : Lab (972) 879-4326 : Pager  

Re: booting from raid

1999-10-18 Thread Mark Ferrell
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Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Mark Ferrell
r not, but I happen to > have exactly (4) 4.3gb SCSI drives on an aic78xxx ( the Ultra Wide > version) too, on an SMP box (2.2.12). however, I boot on an IDE > drive, and uses no RAID. > > This one config is working fine. > > I'd say, it's the raid thingy, then ... > > Viet -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (972) 685-7868 : Desk (972) 685-4210 : Lab (972) 879-4326 : Pager

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-23 Thread Mark Ferrell
No, I havn't had lockups at all that I remember, regardless of how hard I beat on the machine. The system is a Dell PowerEdge2300 using AIC-7880 controlers for the drives, and using the AIC-7860(?) for the dat drive and cd-rom. I run the same patches on a Dell OptiPlex GX1 using an AIC-7880 cont

Re: Linux box locking up ..

1999-09-22 Thread Mark Ferrell
: : constantly dumping system information? > : : > : : Any information or clues would be more then appreciated. Replies > : : directly to the list are more then fine; I subscribe to both. > : : > : : Thanks. > : : > : : ::: Jason A. Diegmueller > : : ::: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer > : : ::: 513/542-1500 WORK // [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : : ::: Systems Administrator, Bertke Systems Innovations > : : > : : > : : -------------------------- > : : ------ > : : to unsubscribe email "unsubscribe linux-admin" to > : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : : See the linux-admin FAQ: http://www.kalug.lug.net/linux-admin-FAQ/ > : : > : -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (972) 685-7868 : Desk (972) 685-4210 : Lab (972) 879-4326 : Pager

Re: Booting Root RAID 1 Directly _Is_ Possible

1999-08-24 Thread Mark Ferrell
Maybe you two could work together and make a RaidRoot-HOWTO that covers both lilo and grub?? -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Poling wrote: > On 23 Aug 1999, Harald Nordgård-Hansen wrote: > > James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How come I

Re: Is the latest RAID stuff in 2.2.11-ac3 ?

1999-08-18 Thread Mark Ferrell
be more descriptive but I am at work now and don't have any of my logs .. Will get home and do a make mrproper and try again and see if it still has issues .. will drop you a log if all is not well. -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ferrell, Mark (EXCHANGE:RICH2:2K25)" wr

Re: Is the latest RAID stuff in 2.2.11-ac3 ?

1999-08-18 Thread Mark Ferrell
Was playing w/ 2.2.12-final last night in alan's 2.2.12pre releases and it appears to fully support the newer raid source. -- Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the latest (ie. 19990724) RAID stuff in 2.2.11-ac3 ? > > If not, what version of the RAID

Re: Question Re: Software Mirroring and the root partition

1999-07-22 Thread Mark Ferrell
l is patched to auto-detect the raid arrayz then all should be fine. Corse .. like I said .. I could be off my rocker and there might be a limitation that I am not aware of. Mark F.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nortel Networks Christopher A. Gantz wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > First I

Re: linux-raid 0.9 on SUSE-Linux 6.1

1999-07-09 Thread Mark Ferrell
I installed the raid 0.90 tools and installed and patch the 2.2.6 kernel. Though I did it from source .. don't know if that matters. Corse .. getting Yast to believe it's root fs was /dev/md0 is a completely different storry. Schackel, Fa. Integrata, ZRZ DA wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm us

RAID 0

1999-06-14 Thread Mark Beck
Guys, Thanks for your help. I now have a working system after I downgraded my kernel. Its a shame the software RAID HOWTO does not point out the Alpha sub directory. Im shocked that I have lost 12GB off my raid 0 set before I have even started! Mark Beck cat /proc/mdstat Personalities

Patching kernel for RAID.

1999-06-11 Thread Mark Beck
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 -> linux-2.2.6/ drwxr-xr-x 15 1046 1046 1024 Jun 11 16:25 linux-2.2.6 drwxr-xr-x 14 1046 1046

Raid, latest kernel patch

1999-06-11 Thread Mark Beck
Could someone tell me what the latest version of Kernel supports raiding that works. Also where do I get the patches from? And why do I need to patch? Mark Beck -Original Message- From: Andrew Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

mkraid error "mkraid: aborted"

1999-06-11 Thread Mark Beck
ock at 24988992kB mkraid: aborted No information can be found in the System logs. mkraid version 0.90.0 Linux lisc0002.rrds.co.uk 2.2.9 #5 Wed Jun 9 15:48:15 BST 1999 i686 unknown Any help appreciated. Mark Beck

Removing Active Disk From Mirror

1999-04-26 Thread Mark Anthony Lisher
to the other disks after running lilo. This would mean if the first disk (bios boot disk) failed it could be removed and the next disk would be ready to be booted from. Any thoughts? Mark ____ |- Mark Anthony Lisher

Re: Linux and AMI MegaRAID

1998-12-21 Thread Mark Plaksin
r problem. The mail from Charles is here: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~happy/megaraid.smp.txt Sorry I haven't made it more usable but I've been busy :) -- Mark Plaksinhttp://www.arches.uga.edu/~happy/

Re: AMI Megaraid Woes

1998-12-12 Thread Mark Plaksin
2) Try the patch we got from AMI to solve our SMP+MegaRAID problems. I *think* that it comes with a different megaraid.c and megaraid.h than what you'll find elsewhere though I haven't diff'd them yet. http://www.arches.uga.edu/~happy/megaraid.smp.txt -- Mark Plaksin

Re: Successfully raid auto recovery story and a few questions too!

1998-12-04 Thread Mark Lord
Eugene Blanchard wrote: > > I am running raid0 over raid1. Two striped pairs mirrored. Two internal ... > I would think that if a drive failed running a mirrored raid that the > system would realize this, shut down the bad mirrored half, send an ... Isn't that why people usually run raid1 over r

Re: Success report: RAID on the desktop

1998-12-03 Thread Mark Lord
Michael Shields wrote: .. > I have a Celeron 333, which should not be dramatically slower. Are > you sure these numbers are right -- 85 MB/s? How much RAM is in that ooops. Yeah, ignore the 85MB values. Here it is again, using "bonnie -s 256" on my 128MB P2-400 w/raid0 (2 IDE): Seeker 1...Se

Re: Success report: RAID on the desktop

1998-12-02 Thread Mark Lord
Michael Shields wrote: > > Here is a bonnie (tested with -s of 3x physical RAM) on my new home > system: > > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > MachineMB K/sec %CP

Re: raidtools-0.90 problem

1998-11-22 Thread Mark Lord
Dave Wreski wrote: > ...# ./mkraid --configfile /etc/raidtab /dev/md0 > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/hdc1, 425218kB, raid superblock at 425152kB > disk 1: /dev/hdd1, 425218kB, raid superblock at 425152kB > mkraid: aborted I traced that "aborted" down to a fa

RAID NFG on linux-2.1.129+flupatch

1998-11-22 Thread Mark Lord
Since the stock md/raid0 is now horribly broken in 2.1.12[89], I decided today to try the latest raid1 stuff: raid0145-19981110-2.1.127 -- kernel patch raidtools-19981105-0.90.tar.gz -- raid utilities After patching the kernel and rebooting, I created /etc/raidtab:

Re: 2.1.129: oops during boot from raid

1998-11-21 Thread Mark Lord
Me Too! Me Too! Same Ooops, same place, but with Fast! IDE drives instead of SCSI. I thought for a moment that it might be a hard-to-find IDE driver bug, but I see that Andreas managed to get it to happen on a SCSI-only RAID0. I first noticed this problem with .128/.129/.129+flufix but that do

Re: Improving RAID5 performance (what disks/configuration?)

1998-11-14 Thread Mark Hahn
> > AMD K6-233 64M > [...] > > 2 x fast/wide/ultra 9.1gig 7200rpm disks (/export) ---> /dev/md0 > [...] > > ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- > > -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- > > MachineMB K/sec

can some please explain this error

1998-11-10 Thread Mark J. Bailey [Admin]
stats are missing above and the drive as Oracle8 on it and runs *TONS* of data through. Thanks Mark

Status Update on DPT and Storage Manager for Linux

1998-11-08 Thread Mark J. Bailey
the most part, prior to these problems, it has been a no-brainer. But, where I am now is not good and is endangering the desired outcome of the project and I have to do something soon. So I make my case to all of you and I thank you for listening. Mark -

Help Raid 0 Operation not supported by device

1998-11-04 Thread Mark Atkinson
was having in the Archive. But this one has stumped me and no one has posted a similar question that I have seen. I am pretty new to system administration under Linux. ;) Also which would be a better way to go for a news server under Linux, Raid 0 or a linear stripe? -- Sincerely, Mark Atkin

DPT SCO binaries under Linux?

1998-10-19 Thread Mark Plaksin
Hi, Has anybody got DPT's RAID management software for SCO running under Linux? I can get the binaries to run but dptmgr always says it can't talk to the device. dptelog says it can't open the device file I created for it. Any help will be appreciated! -