Looking for clean fail behavior

2000-08-04 Thread umshore4
Hi! I'm setting up a RAID1 array, and in testing it by removing power to drive, I notice that about half the time the system appears to hang. Sometimes if I wait long enough, it will come back, but not always. So my question is, what equipment do I need to ensure that when a drive fails, it fail

another FAQ

2000-07-31 Thread umshore4
Hi! The latest patch from Mingo seems to be raid-0.90-2.2.16-A0, but the redhat kernel apparently uses -B2. Where is this -B2 patch to be found? Where can I find updated patches in the future? Does the -B2 patch fix any significant problems in the -A0 patch? Any info appreciated. S. Shore

Re: 2.2.14 patch

2000-07-30 Thread umshore4
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Deny Fahruddin wrote: > Hi, > I am newe with Linux, and currentlyI am using Caldera eServer2.3 with kernel > 2.2.14. I downloaded patches from > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1 and do the > patching (to enable me Raid 1). But the patching does not go

no devices listed in mdstat

2000-07-27 Thread umshore4
Hi! I've applied the raid-0.90-2.2.16-A0 patch to a 2.2.16 kernel and compiled with multiple disk, autodetect, and raid1 support in kernel. When I boot from this kernel, everything appear to be fine, except that no devices (not even inactive ones) are listed in /proc/mdstat, although /proc/mdsta