RE: help!

2000-08-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
t: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help! > > 2 of my 4 raid drives failed.. what's the best way to repair > the super block > to see if I can get one of them to work?

help!

2000-08-14 Thread Martin Brown
2 of my 4 raid drives failed.. what's the best way to repair the super block to see if I can get one of them to work? ___ Martin Brown Unix Systems and Network Administrator Tantalus Communications Inc. Suite 500 - 1122 Mainland Street Vancouver, BC V6B 5L1 [EM

Re: need help with getting RAID0 up under RH 6.1

2000-08-10 Thread System V
> I'm running RH 6.1 and a 2.2.14 kernel from SCSI drives. Then I have Have U pached this kernel for the `new' md driver, wich will work with raidtools v0.9 > 4x 60GB IDE disks which I want to format as a RAID0 array. Why? I can't see the point in making 1 240Gb filesystem. > I performed the fo

need help with getting RAID0 up under RH 6.1

2000-08-10 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I'm running RH 6.1 and a 2.2.14 kernel from SCSI drives. Then I have 4x 60GB IDE disks which I want to format as a RAID0 array. I performed the following steps: 1. created a 0xfd ID partition 1 on every drive /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7473 c

Re: Help.

2000-07-14 Thread Tamas Acs
Hi, > > I'm sorry but I do not know how to apply this patch.. when I do #patch > > raidreconf-0.0.2.patch > > It just sits there... can u tell me how ya'll made did it? Thank you in > > advance. > > Did you type "patch < raidreconf-0.0.2.patch" ? > ---^^^ > > btw. what is this p

Re: Help.

2000-07-14 Thread Juri Haberland
David Grimes wrote: > > I'm sorry but I do not know how to apply this patch.. when I do #patch > raidreconf-0.0.2.patch > It just sits there... can u tell me how ya'll made did it? Thank you in > advance. Did you type "patch < raidreconf-0.0.2.patch" ? ---^^^ btw. what is this p

Help.

2000-07-13 Thread David Grimes
I'm sorry but I do not know how to apply this patch.. when I do #patch raidreconf-0.0.2.patch It just sits there... can u tell me how ya'll made did it? Thank you in advance. Regards David Grimes Sr. Technical Engineer/Level II Check Point Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]2505 N.

RE: help: read-ahead not set: what is it???

2000-07-08 Thread Abhishek Khaitan
can u send your raid configuration file(s)? maybe, I will be able to help then... > -Original Message- > From: Sandro Dentella [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help: read-ahead not set: what i

help: read-ahead not set: what is it???

2000-07-05 Thread Sandro Dentella
Hi, I'm trying to configure raid1 w/ 2 disks /dev/hda7 /dev/hda8 but I get: mkraid version 0.36.4 parsing configuration file mkraid: aborted cat /proc/mdstat: personalities: [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3raid 1] read_ahead not set<< md0 : inctive what

I'm thick headed, please help me boot in 2.4.0-test2

2000-06-24 Thread Ryan Mack
, apparently because it didn't first configure the / raid device (md4), only the /boot device (md0). Any ideas? Probably some stupid mistake on my part, but I could sure use some help. -Ryan

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread phil
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 12:06:04AM +0200, Jochen Haeberle wrote: > > Things work fine on the raid arrays after synchronizing finished. A > fsck on the mdx devices was still neccessary but went through okay so > things seem to work again... except for that xxx fan :-/ Sounds like you could us

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread James Manning
[Jochen Haeberle] > does not recreate automatically... The problem mentioned striking me > most is "md0 has overlapping physical units with md2"... this does > not sound very good to me... That's informative about resync operations. It is not an error. > May we run fsck on the md devices??? su

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread Jochen Haeberle
Hi and thanks to all who replied so fast! Things work fine on the raid arrays after synchronizing finished. A fsck on the mdx devices was still neccessary but went through okay so things seem to work again... except for that xxx fan :-/ thanks for the tips and good advice! cu Jochen At 15

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread phil
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:21:15PM -0400, Richard Bollinger wrote: > The message about overlaping physical units does not indicate failure... > > Where there are multiple mirrors on the same physical disks, the Raid code > avoids recovering more than one at a time for performance reasons. It > s

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread Richard Bollinger
]> To: "linux-raid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 2:06 PM Subject: Raid-Failure, please help > At the moment my colleague at the location is trying to get the > machine back to work, at present with an open chasi. But the Raid > does not recrea

Re: Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread Jochen Haeberle
does not boot correctly. It tries rebuilding the RAID >but stops with the about message and leaving us on our own... > >Anyone had this problem with overlapping physical units??? How can >this happen? What can we do now? > >May we run fsck on the md devices??? > >PLAAASE Help > >Regards and thanks in advance > >Jochen

Raid-Failure, please help

2000-06-20 Thread Jochen Haeberle
t can we do now? May we run fsck on the md devices??? PLAAASE Help Regards and thanks in advance Jochen

help!

2000-06-17 Thread rou
amming, cryptogaphy and many other things. I need a work, please, help!.

Re: Patches for 2.2.16 - help people !

2000-06-10 Thread Alexander Javoronkov
> > I've been running 2.2.16 with the 2.2.15-A0 patch for about 18 hours now on > > two boxes (one RAID1, one large RAID5). > > It's working fine (the md.c rejects don't matter -- that was for old version > > of md.c). > > Well, I tried the "2.2.15, raid-2.2.15-A0 patch, 2.2.16 patch, build" > met

RE: HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-30 Thread Jieming Wang
Leblanc Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: HELP with autodetection on booting [Gregory Leblanc] > I started seeing this when I blew away my RAID0 arrays and put RAID1 arrays > on my home machine. I suspect that this is cause by RedHat putting > something in the initscripts to start

Re: HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-29 Thread James Manning
[Gregory Leblanc] > I started seeing this when I blew away my RAID0 arrays and put RAID1 arrays > on my home machine. I suspect that this is cause by RedHat putting > something in the initscripts to start the RAID arrays AND the RAID slices > being set to type fd (RAID autodetect), but I haven't

Re: HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-29 Thread James Manning
[Jieming Wang] > autorun ... > considering sdb1 ... > adding sdb1 ... > adding sda1 ... > created md0 > bind > bind > running: > now! > sdb1's event counter: 000a > sda1's event counter: 000a Looks like a couple of partitions with type fd, looking great for autostart by the raid code

RE: HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
this. And since I just totaled my RH install, it may be a couple of weeks before I get back to look some more. Greg > -Original Message- > From: Jieming Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 6:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HELP w

HELP with autodetection on booting

2000-05-29 Thread Jieming Wang
I am running Redhat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5-22. I have successfully created a RAID1 disk and mount with no problem. However, when I reboot the machine, it failed. Below is part of the message from running command dmesg: autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). (scsi0)

Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-29 Thread John Saunders
any disks THEN it will destroy your data. > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Matthew Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "James Manning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2

Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-29 Thread Matthew Burke
TECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 5:50 AM > Subject: Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0 > > > > > On Mon, 29 May 2000, James Manning wrote: > > > Sure makes it look like hdc3 has some major issues. It has a partition > > ty

Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-29 Thread Matthew Burke
On Mon, 29 May 2000, James Manning wrote: > Sure makes it look like hdc3 has some major issues. It has a partition > type of fd, but invalid raid superblock. Makes me wonder if e2fsck > didn't get run on hdc3 itself and it "fixed" that last part (hope not > since it may have done some real su

Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-28 Thread James Manning
[Matthew Burke] > On Sun, 28 May 2000, James Manning wrote: > > [Matthew Burke] > > > e2fsck 1.18, 11-nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > > e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while > > > trying to open /dev/md1 > > > Could this be a zero-length partition? > >

Re: HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-28 Thread James Manning
[Matthew Burke] > e2fsck 1.18, 11-nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while > trying to open /dev/md1 > Could this be a zero-length partition? > > /dev/md1 is not mounted, but it is properly set up in /etc/raidtab > > raidsta

HELP!!! Broken raid0

2000-05-28 Thread Matthew Burke
Hi. I'm in URGENT need of some help. After changing motherboards in one of my boxes to a Via VB601, I forgot to disable the UDMA setting in the bios. This is needed because this mobo, my Seagate 6.5Gb drives, and UDMA don't mix. The result was the kernel segfaulted/panicked aft

Any help with details of the RAID1 edits for LILO ?

2000-05-22 Thread Piete Brooks
ounting root (0903) fails. Running `sync' several times after running LILO and before rebooting seems to help, but it's a bit worrying. My main concern is that it replaces the `boot=/dev/md*' with `boot=/dev/hdX', and thus puts LILO on the MBR, rather than as I usually do, in the Li

Re: Help with RAID5 damage please

2000-05-18 Thread Richard Bollinger
> Cc: "Pavel Kucera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Help with RAID5 damage please > > Hi there, > > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Richard Bollinger wrote: > > > May 18 16:38:27 backup kernel: hdh

Re: Help with RAID5 damage please

2000-05-18 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Hi there, On Thu, 18 May 2000, Richard Bollinger wrote: > > May 18 16:38:27 backup kernel: hdh2's event counter: 000a > > May 18 16:38:27 backup kernel: hdg2's event counter: 0008 > > May 18 16:38:27 backup kernel: hdf2's event counter: 0008 > > May 18 16:38:27 backup kernel: hde2's

Re: Help with RAID5 damage please

2000-05-18 Thread Richard Bollinger
n with hdh2 included. Good luck! Rich B - Original Message - From: "Pavel Kucera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:46 AM Subject: Help with RAID5 damage please > Hello, > > I have all my backup on server with

Help with RAID5 damage please

2000-05-18 Thread Pavel Kucera
Hello, I have all my backup on server with 8 EIDE disk in RAID5 array. This server was cold rebooted and now RAID5 has unconsistent superblock. Is there any posibility to get my data back from RAID ? Thanks, Pavel This is what happens when I try to start raid (raidstart): May 18 16:38:27 bac

RE: help interpret tiobench.pl results?

2000-05-17 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: help interpret tiobench.pl results? > > I get: > > File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq

help interpret tiobench.pl results?

2000-05-17 Thread Edward Schernau
I get: File Block Num Seq ReadRand Read Seq Write Rand Write DirSize Size Thr Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) Rate (CPU%) --- -- --- --- --- --- --- --- . 20040961 21.57 12.0% 0.634 1.13% 19.67 24.0% 1.0

Re: Help !!

2000-05-14 Thread bug1
Volker Wysk wrote: > > Hello! > > RedHat 6.1's graphical install program has destroyed my RAID0 volume, > which is really bad for me. > > I was going to install a second Linux, on a separate partition, and chose > "create RAID partition", and to *not* format it. After that, I couldn't > mount i

Help !!

2000-05-14 Thread Volker Wysk
matted? I've tried to find an alternate superblock, but I didn't succeed so far. Thank you in advance for any help!! bye!

help me SoftWare RAID

2000-04-28 Thread penguin74
Help me please I am Korean and My English is poor very...sorry my name is jongyeob kim I make Linux Server this Server use DMA66 and Software Raid one is 20 GiGa HDD ( DMA 33 ) two is 40 GiGa HDD ( DMA 33 ) three is CDROM four is 40 GiGa HDD ( DMA 33 ) five is 40 GiGa HDD

Re: I need your help

2000-04-27 Thread Michael
> Hello > > I have installed a raid 1(mirror) partition. > > / => /dev/md0 > /boot => /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 (handmade mirror) > > Here is my problem: I have destroyed my Bootblock. Now I can't > access the root-Partition in order to make a new one. The only thing > that I can reach is

Re: I need your help

2000-04-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:58:19PM +0200, Andreas Martmann wrote: > Here is my problem: I have destroyed my Bootblock. Now I can´t access > the root-Partition in order to make a new one. The only thing that I can > reach is the kernel i had put in the ext2-Partition. If you can get the kernel, y

I need your help

2000-04-27 Thread Andreas Martmann
Hello I have installed a raid 1(mirror) partition. / => /dev/md0 /boot => /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 (handmade mirror) Here is my problem: I have destroyed my Bootblock. Now I can´t access the root-Partition in order to make a new one. The only thing that I can reach is the kernel i had put

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2000-04-24 Thread WHquestion
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Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-18 Thread Douglas Egan
on this list I was pointed to nfs.sourceforge.net: http://download.sourceforge.net/nfs/kernel-nfs-dhiggen_merge-1.4.tar.gz to complete the transition. Thanks to everyone for their help! Doug Egan Erich wrote: > > Ok, here are the notes that I wrote to myself of how to get Software > RAI

RE: PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts!

2000-04-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts! > > > I am trying to make a software raid5, and it seems no matter what I do > mkraid aborts. > > My mkraid output looks like this: > > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > dis

PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts! - Never Mind!

2000-04-18 Thread Clay Claiborne
I just found the new patches at people.redhat.com/~mingo and everything is okay now. Maybe somebody should post this stuff on kernel.org and its mirrors. Clay

PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts!

2000-04-18 Thread root
controller (PDC20262) . I've also tried this with 4 and 8 Maxtor 40GB drives (94098U8) and other PCI DMA66 controllers (HPT366 & CMD648) with much the same results. Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated. Also the latest raidtools and patches I have been able to find at kernel.org

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Douglas Egan
wrote: > > I'm the one who originally posted the question, and now I may have an > answer (with help from the list): > > > I've tried doing that, 2.2.14 adding both patchs. > > mostly they failed everywhere. then once I did it get it in, and compile, > > it s

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Erich
Ok, here are the notes that I wrote to myself of how to get Software RAID and the Promise Ultra/66 in the same kernel: 1. Don't use the RedHat version of the 2.2.14 kernel. It has too many patches, so the other patches won't work. 2. Do unpack the linux-2.2.14.tar.gz file. 3. Apply the ide.2.

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Michael
> It's definitely possible to use 2.2.14 with the Software RAID patch > and with the Promise Ultra/66 patch at the same time. I'm doing it > right now. Download the plain-vanilla 2.2.14 kernel. Apply this > patch first: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/old/ide.2.2.14 >

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Erich
I'm the one who originally posted the question, and now I may have an answer (with help from the list): > I've tried doing that, 2.2.14 adding both patchs. > mostly they failed everywhere. then once I did it get it in, and compile, > it still never worked right, I change to 2

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Chris Bondy
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Tony Grant wrote: > Erich wrote: > > > Any clues? I feel like I've done everything according to the > > instructions, and I feel like I'm very close to getting it to work, > > but it's still not working. Have I left out something important in > > the kernel config? Or

Re: Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-14 Thread Tony Grant
Erich wrote: > Any clues? I feel like I've done everything according to the > instructions, and I feel like I'm very close to getting it to work, > but it's still not working. Have I left out something important in > the kernel config? Or did I need a RAID patch to the 2.2.14 kernel to > get

Help with RAID 1 in 2.2.14 (RedHat 6.2)

2000-04-13 Thread Erich
the 2.2.14 kernel to get it to work? This last possibility would be unfortunate, because it will be difficult to apply both a RAID patch and a Promise Ultra/66 patch. Thanks for your help, e -- This message was my two cents worth. Please deposit two cents into my e-gold account by

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-12 Thread Mike Bilow
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Darren Nickerson wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote: > > Lance> So, if the md driver doesn't fail a drive that is because the lower > Lance> levels have taken care of all the nitty details and have supposedly > Lance> performed the r

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread Michael
> > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, "Darren" == Darren Nickerson wrote: > array. > > Ack - too late: > > Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: 21:01: rw=0, want=318373889, > limit=33417184 Apr 11 09:58:24 osmin kernel: dev 09:01 blksize=

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread Darren Nickerson
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote: Lance> In that case, I would: Lance> 1) Do a normal shutdown of the machine Lance> 2) Disconnect the bad drive Lance> 3) Power up the system *grin* now I'm sure I read somewhere that RAID was meant to lessen the number of re

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread D. Lance Robinson
Darren Nickerson wrote: > +> 4. is there some way to mark this disk bad right now, so that > +> reconstruction is carried out from the disks I trust? I do have a hot > +> spare . . . > > Lance> You can use the 'raidhotremove' utility. > > This has never worked for me when the disk had n

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread Darren Nickerson
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, "Lance" == D. Lance Robinson wrote: Lance> So, if the md driver doesn't fail a drive that is because the lower Lance> levels have taken care of all the nitty details and have supposedly Lance> performed the requested data transfer correctly. As long as the actua

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread D. Lance Robinson
I hope this helps. See below. <>< Lance. > my questions are: > > 2. the disk seems to be "cured" by re-enabling DMA . . . but what is the state > of my array likely to be after the errors above? Can I safely assume this was > harmless? I mean, they WERE write errors after all, yes? Is my array

Re: Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-11 Thread Darren Nickerson
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, "Darren" == Darren Nickerson wrote: Darren> 4. is there some way to mark this disk bad right now, so that Darren> reconstruction is carried out from the disks I trust? I do have a hot Darren> spare . . . Things are more and more frightening: EXT2-fs warning (de

Please help - when is a bad disk a bad disk?

2000-04-10 Thread Darren Nickerson
Folks, I've been running four 37GB IBM drives in a Raid5 array for several months now. They're driven by two Promise Ultra66 ide controllers, and I'm running 2.2.13ac2 with Andre Hedrick's ide.2.2.13.1999.patch (see another thread - I'm considering upgrading but am not sure of the current st

raid help

2000-04-09 Thread Andy Harrison
I've posted the following message in the newsgroups and a couple other places, without much success. I got this address as I was about to try the mkraid --force option when I saw this address. Executing the actual command frightened me away by saying it was about to destroy the contents of m

RE: Need help with software RAID-1

2000-03-31 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Pete Rossi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Need help with software RAID-1 > > > > I am trying to get RAID-1 running with dual SCSI drives. > > I read the

Need help with software RAID-1

2000-03-31 Thread Pete Rossi
I am trying to get RAID-1 running with dual SCSI drives. I read the Software-RAID HOWTO and followed the steps outlined there. However.. when I get to the part to run mkraid, it returns the following.. > # mkraid /dev/md0 > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk 0: /dev/

Re: newbie needs help

2000-03-22 Thread Marc Mutz
Wolfram Lassnig wrote: > > hallo > I´m trying to get a RAID5 system running but i`ve got problems setting up the > /dev/md. I´m using a SuSE 6.3, Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc >version egcs-2.91.66 > 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 15:51:29 CET 1999 , and > rai

Re: newbie needs help

2000-03-22 Thread James Manning
[Wolfram Lassnig] > I´m using a SuSE 6.3, Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > is it the wrong kernel patch (SuSE does not respond on my queries) SuSE doesn't patch their kernels Excellent software raid howto: http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html kernel 2.2.14 pa

newbie needs help

2000-03-22 Thread Wolfram Lassnig
hallo I´m trying to get a RAID5 system running but i`ve got problems setting up the /dev/md. I´m using a SuSE 6.3, Linux version 2.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 15:51:29 CET 1999 , and raidtools v.0.90.2 -Alpha, 27th february

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-03 Thread Martin Bene
At 09:36 03.03.00, Thomas Rottler wrote: >I was told several times now to use LILO with the Redhat patches. >But my favorite distribution was/is/will be Debian, and I didn't find these >patches anywhere on the net.. You can get the patch from ftp://ftp.sime.com/pub/linux/lilo.raid1.gz Bye, Marti

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-03 Thread Thomas Rottler
Hi! I was told several times now to use LILO with the Redhat patches. But my favorite distribution was/is/will be Debian, and I didn't find these patches anywhere on the net.. So please post them to the list or directly to me (if they're too large).. THX! Thomas

Re: Raid 1 help needed

2000-03-02 Thread Rainer Krienke
ais wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up a Raid 1 configuration on my linux box, and I > always get the same error, whatever the kernel I'm using. > I first tried with a Mandrake 6.1 (kernel 2.2.13-15 updated to some > version > 2.2.13-22), then with a Mandrake 7 (kernel 2.2.14). > > My configu

Raid 1 help needed

2000-03-02 Thread ais
  I'm trying to set up a Raid 1 configuration on my linux box, and I always get the same error, whatever the kernel I'm using. I first tried with a Mandrake 6.1 (kernel 2.2.13-15 updated to some version > 2.2.13-22), then with a Mandrake 7 (kernel 2.2.14). My configuration is : PII 450, 128Mo ram

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-01 Thread George Liu
The solution is so simple after I got the RH 6.1 CDROM with new graphical installer. I did finish it in so easy way. Thank you for your helps. George Kelina wrote: > Dunno what all the fuzz is about... But i'm running 2 raid1 arrays. One > 16mb /dev/md0 > for boot, and one 15gb /dev/md1 as roo

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-01 Thread Kelina
Dunno what all the fuzz is about... But i'm running 2 raid1 arrays. One 16mb /dev/md0 for boot, and one 15gb /dev/md1 as root. If u go into rh6.1's graphic install u can choose if u want an ext2 or a raid device. Go ahead and try it out. Worked perfectly here, just 2day i janked out the primary

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-01 Thread Thomas Rottler
Hi! I've another idea to run a RAID 1 '/' partition: (I assume that CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID is available.) Recently I found out that you can access the individual real devices of a RAID array (if it's not active). This way I could tell the kernel to mount my RAID 1 device as rootdir ("root=/dev/m

RE: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-03-01 Thread Martin Bene
At 19:14 29.02.00, Gregory Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're running some >other distro, you need to be running RAID 0.90, and LILO with the redhat >patches. Just a small warning about the lilo - rai1 patches: 1) The patch does NOT handle arrays in degraded mode correctly (check f

RE: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Rottler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:44 PM > To: Linux RAID > Subject: Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1 > > > On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: >

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Thomas Rottler
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 10:14:35AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > I think you've got them mixed up. It makes the most sense to be able to > boot from a RAID1 (mirror), next most to be able to boot from LINEAR, and > the least ammount of sense to be able to boot from a RAID0 or RAID5, because > o

RE: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Thomas Rottler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:43 AM > To: Linux RAID > Subject: Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1 > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0600, George Liu wrote: > >

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Kelina
At 10:43 29-2-00 +0100, Thomas Rottler wrote: >On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0600, George Liu wrote: > > This is a simple question but is difficult for me. I want to install a > > bootable-RAID 1 for 2 SCSI hard drive in the same controller. The kernel > > is 2.2.12 accompanying OS Redhat 6.

Re: ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-29 Thread Thomas Rottler
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 05:40:11PM -0600, George Liu wrote: > This is a simple question but is difficult for me. I want to install a > bootable-RAID 1 for 2 SCSI hard drive in the same controller. The kernel > is 2.2.12 accompanying OS Redhat 6.1. I don't know about a possibility to boot from a R

ask help RAID1, 2 SCSI Drive, RedHat6.1

2000-02-28 Thread George Liu
Hi This is a simple question but is difficult for me. I want to install a bootable-RAID 1 for 2 SCSI hard drive in the same controller. The kernel is 2.2.12 accompanying OS Redhat 6.1. Here is my RAID plan disk partition mount pt. sizedevice 1

Re: FW: Raid installation trouble shooting. Please Help

2000-02-14 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, February 14, 2000 ] Jens Klaas wrote: > > [ Saturday, February 12, 2000 ] David Cooley wrote: > >> As the error message points out, you need to type "mkraid --[snip] > >> /dev/md0" > > > > 1) as the error message also points out, that option is NOT to be sent > >in email :) private

Re: FW: Raid installation trouble shooting. Please Help

2000-02-14 Thread Jens Klaas
Quoted mail: Hi James, > [ Saturday, February 12, 2000 ] David Cooley wrote: >> As the error message points out, you need to type "mkraid --[snip] >> /dev/md0" > > 1) as the error message also points out, that option is NOT to be sent >in email :) privately? perhaps... a well-archived list?

Re: FW: Raid installation trouble shooting. Please Help

2000-02-12 Thread David Cooley
As the error message points out, you need to type "mkraid --really-force /dev/md0" At 06:12 PM 2/11/00 -0500, Sahu, Devaraj wrote: >Please help me trouble shoot the RAID installation. > >I am trying to concatenate 2 scsi drives of 50 GB each using software RAID >level 1

Re: FW: Raid installation trouble shooting. Please Help

2000-02-12 Thread James Manning
[ Friday, February 11, 2000 ] Sahu, Devaraj wrote: > #nr-spare-disks 0 why comment this out? just curious... haven't check the parser to see if it's necessary. > mkraid -f /dev/md0 Did you run a regular mkraid first? what did it output? > PLEASE dont mention the [snip] flag in any email

Re: help, help, help

2000-02-11 Thread James Manning
[ Friday, February 11, 2000 ] "Hübner, Dietmar, VMD-TWR-IEA" wrote: > I have linux 2.2.13 (SuSE) and a problem with a raid1. > > #cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] > read_ahead not set > md0 : inactive > md1 : inactive > md2 : inactive > md3 : inactive > > Do you

RE: help, help, help

2000-02-11 Thread Jones, Clay
Title: RE: help, help, help Here is the main clue as to what is wrong ** >#cat /proc/mdstat >Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] >read_ahead not set >md0 : inactive >md1 : inactive >md2 : inactive >md3 : inactive Any time you see a /proc/mdstat li

FW: Raid installation trouble shooting. Please Help

2000-02-11 Thread Sahu, Devaraj
Please help me trouble shoot the RAID installation. I am trying to concatenate 2 scsi drives of 50 GB each using software RAID level 1 in Linux 6.1. 1. I created 2 raid partitions during installation on scsi drives a and b. These are /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb1 and of equal number of blocks

help, help, help

2000-02-11 Thread "Hübner, Dietmar, VMD-TWR-IEA"
Hi , I have linux 2.2.13 (SuSE) and a problem with a raid1. I included 2 new SCSI-HD, in my system, created 3 Partitions sda1..3, sdb1..3 (3x3GB), and i will use only a part of this, so I created /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2

Re: overlapping physical units !!?!, please help

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, January 18, 2000 ] KS wrote: > We recently had an ups failure and some of our servers have crashed. When > reviewing the logs on the maschines I have spotted messages like: > > kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has overlapping physical units with md1! > .. > kernel: md: serializing r

Re: [profmad@mindspring.com: Raid Help]

2000-01-19 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 17, 2000 ] Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: > > Just for clarification, the default (stock) RH 6.x *is* patched > > for 0.90 RAID (the 6.1 installer even allows you to install to a > > s/w raid1!) > > And raid0 or raid5, only /boot needs to be raid

overlapping physical units !!?!, please help

2000-01-18 Thread KS
Hi, We recently had an ups failure and some of our servers have crashed. When reviewing the logs on the maschines I have spotted messages like: kernel: md: serializing resync, md0 has overlapping physical units with md1! .. kernel: md: serializing resync, md2 has overlapping physical units with m

Re: [profmad@mindspring.com: Raid Help]

2000-01-17 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: > [ Friday, January 14, 2000 ] jesse nelson wrote: > > I had the same problem the default kernel is not patched on 6.0 or 6.1 > > installs although they include the 0.90 tools. I think the up2date RPM's are > > though. I just moved to Mandrake 7.Beta an

[profmad@mindspring.com: Raid Help]

2000-01-14 Thread James Manning
I haven't dealt with linear, but the stock RH kernel comes with 0.90 raid so I'm not sure where the issue is here. - Forwarded message from "Prof. Mad Crazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Prof. Mad Crazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

RE: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-07 Thread Bruno Prior
ngs around a bit. When you first asked for help you were building the mirror on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Now you're building it on /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1. This problem may be caused by an error in your new configuration. We could do with knowing what your setup is (raidtab, fstab, mdstat, outpu

Re: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-07 Thread Andreas G. Schindler
Many thanks to all who helped me with the RAID setup. I had the 2.2.13 kernel patched successfull. Kernel build was also o.k. But during boot a problem arises: When i construct a RAID1 from hdb1 and hdc1 including autodetection, the kernel panics when trying to mount the root fs on hda1. I presum

Re: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-05 Thread Jim Ford
-Original Message- From: Kelina >>Assuming this is yet again the cause of problems, is anyone else getting >>sick of >>stupid distros like Suse and Mandrake that include raidtools-0.90 without >>including support in the kernel? > >I keep replying to these emails, all the users are thankf

Re: Need help with RAID1

2000-01-04 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> thanks for your hints. I just got the latest raid patch from kernel.org. > which is raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. Except some rejects (which can savely be ignored) this patch applies fine to 2.2.13. > I didn't aply a kernel patch for long, so please tell me what to do > (vanilla patch < mypatch do

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