Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Lichtin
Stephen Waters wrote: We have an aic7xxx (2940uw) currently and i am curious how well it would work in a hotswap situation. is there some sort of command you tell the aic7xxx driver to tell it that you're going to remove a disk? linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx didn't seem to say anything

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Daniel Bidwell wrote: who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration? on which controllers and kernel versions? I am usinge a Compaq 2500 with 5 18GB disks, on Debian 2.1, Kernel 2.2.12 (with raid patches). We pulled a hotswap disk out and

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-22 Thread Vedad Kajtaz
Hi people, I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with 2.2.11 raid patch. Everything seems to be ok, except that i cannont manage to retreive an scsi disk from one of my two controllers (aic7xxx and ncr8x drivers) without drivers going into interruptible loop of "SCSI bus is being reset for host X channel

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-22 Thread Chris Mauritz
Are you sure you're not having some sort of cabling/termination issue? C From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 22 11:15:58 1999 Hi people, I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with 2.2.11 raid patch. Everything seems to be ok, except that i cannont manage to retreive an scsi disk from one of my two

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-22 Thread Stephen Waters
thanks. we have an aic7xxx (2940uw) currently and i am curious how well it would work in a hotswap situation. is there some sort of command you tell the aic7xxx driver to tell it that you're going to remove a disk? linux/drivers/scsi/README.aic7xxx didn't seem to say anything about it.. thanks

Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Stephen Waters
i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration? on which controllers and kernel versions? thanks for your input, stephen waters internal sysadmin amicus, inc.

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Lawrence Dickson
FAILED in 18 disk SCSI RAID-5 with no spares. I pulled a disk followed by a dd if=/dev/md0 and it tried to reconstruct without a new disk and went into uninterruptible sleep. Larry Dickson At 03:16 PM 9/21/99 -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who

Re: Hotswapping successes?

1999-09-21 Thread Daniel Bidwell
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:16:18PM -0500, Stephen Waters wrote: i'm looking for a headcount on the following: who has had success on hotswapping scsi devices in raid configuration? on which controllers and kernel versions? I am usinge a Compaq 2500 with 5 18GB disks, on Debian 2.1, Kernel