RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-27 Thread jlewis
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, G.W. Wettstein wrote: > The issue is probably pretty much moot for us at this point. The DPT > cards, at least the 3334 we have, simply don't have the I/O > performance that we need as our load scales. We have been pretty > happy with the DAC960 cards although we had to tur

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-27 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Oct 26, 12:27pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } Subject: RE: DPT Linux RAID. > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, G.W. Wettstein wrote: > > CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA > > > > The instability is especially profound in an SMP environment. Under > > any kind of load there will be cr

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-26 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, G.W. Wettstein wrote: > The following is the .config option that needs to be set for reliable > operation with the DPT cards: > > CONFIG_SCSI_EATA=y > > We have not found the driver configured with the following define to be stable: > > CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA >

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-26 Thread G.W. Wettstein
On Oct 25, 8:33pm, Kenneth Cornetet wrote: } Subject: RE: DPT Linux RAID. > Carefull on this! There are two EATA drivers. It's been several months since > I was trying this driver, but I believe the correct one is simply called > EATA. The ones *not* to use are called eata_dma a

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Kenneth Cornetet
Title: RE: DPT Linux RAID. Carefull on this! There are two EATA drivers. It's been several months since I was trying this driver, but I believe the correct one is simply called EATA. The ones *not* to use are called eata_dma and eata_pio. I got this bit of info from the authors of the dr

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Keladis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Oct-99 Jason A. Diegmueller wrote: >: Does anyone have any ideas on how i can monitor the array (in >: the driver code possibly?) and raise alarms on a failure? > > I have been told by DPT a SMOR utility is "in the works" and > should be out

Re: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Keladis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andy, That would be fine on a DPT EATA card, but i'm using a SmartRaid V series card. Regards, Chris. On 25-Oct-99 Andy Poling wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Chris Keladis wrote: >> I have some DPT RAID controllers (PM1554U2's) i will li

Re: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Chris Keladis wrote: > I have some DPT RAID controllers (PM1554U2's) i will like to configure a RAID > set for. > > I have Mike Neuffer's patches to the 2.2.12 kernel applied, and it see's the > array and everything works okay. > > However i dont have any notification of fai

RE: DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Jason A. Diegmueller
: I have some DPT RAID controllers (PM1554U2's) i will like to : configure a RAID set for. : : Does anyone have any ideas on how i can monitor the array (in : the driver code possibly?) and raise alarms on a failure? I have been told by DPT a SMOR utility is "in the works" and should be out "b

DPT Linux RAID.

1999-10-25 Thread Chris Keladis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have some DPT RAID controllers (PM1554U2's) i will like to configure a RAID set for. I have Mike Neuffer's patches to the 2.2.12 kernel applied, and it see's the array and everything works okay. However i dont have any notification of fai