Re: software raid problems

2000-08-10 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday August 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using software raid and since a few developer kernel versions I have problems >with the multiple device driver; > now I describe the situation with the newest kernel test6 - messages I get from the >kernel: > 1) sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096

software raid problems

2000-08-10 Thread Lars Callenbach
I'm using software raid and since a few developer kernel versions I have problems with the multiple device driver; now I describe the situation with the newest kernel test6 - messages I get from the kernel: 1) sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096(I don't know wheter this belongs to md) 2) autodecting

HPT366 RAID problems

2000-07-03 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
I have a working RAID setup un 2.2.16, on a BP6 but using the ATA33 controller. I decided to try the HPT366. My current kernel is the latest from RedHat (2.2.16-3). I built a new one from the following applied in order: - linux-2.2.16 - ide-2.2.16-2630 (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel

Re: Scsi/raid problems: the journey ends?

2000-04-18 Thread Vincent Stoessel
OK, I realized that I did not give the full details of the kernel I was running. I was running 2.2.14 + raid-patch. I got the crashes to stop when I went back to the 2.2.14smp that came with RedHat 6.2. I also backed all that data that was on the raid array and stopped the array deleted the /dev

Scsi/raid problems: the journey begins

2000-04-17 Thread Vincent Stoessel
Ever since I've upgraded to RedHat 6.2 My raided scsi drive has had questionable integrity. The drives were setup to store my extremlely busy (read and writes) mysql database tables. My main system is mounted on an IDE drive. /dev/hda8 256194158197 84769 65% / /dev/hda1

raid problems solved - Thanks to all who helped

1999-10-27 Thread Jason Wong
Well, after receiving numerous emails with suggestions and help, I've finally got this raid thing setup I just wanted to post and say thanks to all who helped. allan bruno mike surge luca gordon and anyone else that helped that I might have forgotten. This has been a really good experience and I

Raid problems from Kernel thread watchdog

1999-09-25 Thread CJones
Does anyone know anything about Kernel 2.2's ability to watch for thread deadlocks, and kill off the offending thread? I remember reading a snipit somewhere that talked of this ability and problems people had been seeing. I have been looking through linux source for the code but have yet to find

RE: root raid problems

1999-09-18 Thread Bruno Prior
an [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 September 1999 18:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruno Prior > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: root raid problems > > > hello, > > i was probably unclear in my previous post. i had not been able to make > any raid devices (/dev/m

Re: root raid problems (fwd)

1999-09-17 Thread Jonathan Nathan
Leandro et al, THANKS!! normally i don't type in caps, but this was so amazingly helpful that i can't help it. i followed your instructions nearly step for step and i now have Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md3 : active raid1 sda7[1] sdb7[0] 530048 blo

RE: root raid problems (fwd)

1999-09-17 Thread Jonathan Nathan
[oops, sent to vgers.rutgers.edu - resending..] hello, i was probably unclear in my previous post. i had not been able to make any raid devices (/dev/md0 was not actually created). i modified the raidtab as was suggested, removing the raid-disk 1 line and just leaving the failed-disk 1 . i

RE: root raid problems

1999-09-17 Thread Bruno Prior
> the biggest problem, i think, is that i can't get the system to boot off a > hard disk at all. during the (redhat 6.0) install i said to put lilo on > the mbr (/dev/sda). this didn't really work - when i bring the machine > up, it says something to the effect of "can't find operating system -

raid problems...

1999-09-16 Thread David A. Cooley
Hi All, I have a Sun Ultra 2 running RedHat 6.0 with all the updates etc. I have successfully been running RAID5 on it with the following: Sun D1000 with 12 4.2G drives, seperated into 2 clusters of 6 each... this is on a single SCSI interface. I mount the 2 md devices and have no problems. To

root raid problems

1999-09-16 Thread Jonathan Nathan
hello, i'm trying to set up root raid on a new system. it's an adaptec aaa-131u2 (which linux doesn't like for hardware-based raid) with two 9gb disks. the biggest problem, i think, is that i can't get the system to boot off a hard disk at all. during the (redhat 6.0) install i said to put lil

Re: Raid Problems

1999-09-07 Thread Sergei Makarov
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/6/99, 10:25:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Raid Problems: > install the old raidtools (0.5) >

Re: Raid Problems

1999-09-06 Thread raid
install the old raidtools (0.5) or use the newest (0.9) with the 0.9 kernel patches On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Matthew wrote: > I am running Mandrake 6.0, I installed the raid tools, and loaded the > raid1 module using insmod raid1. When I issue an lsmod raid1 is > listed. > > When I cat the /proc/

Re: Raid Problems

1999-09-06 Thread Leandro Dybal Bertoni
Matthew wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 6.0, I installed the raid tools, and loaded the > raid1 module using insmod raid1. When I issue an lsmod raid1 is > listed. > > When I cat the /proc/mdstat file it says: > Personalities : [3 raid1] > read_ahead not set > md0 : inactive > md1 : inactive

RE: Raid Problems

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew
; Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: Raid Problems > > > Make sure you don't have any of these drives/partitions mounted, try > mkraid -f /dev/md0, to force the creation of the devices. > > I had the same problem, and had to use more fo

Re: Raid Problems

1999-09-06 Thread Marco Shaw
Make sure you don't have any of these drives/partitions mounted, try mkraid -f /dev/md0, to force the creation of the devices. I had the same problem, and had to use more forceful measures to create the array. Marco > handling MD device /dev/md0 > analyzing super-block > disk0: /dev/sdb1, 444

Raid Problems

1999-09-06 Thread Matthew
I am running Mandrake 6.0, I installed the raid tools, and loaded the raid1 module using insmod raid1. When I issue an lsmod raid1 is listed. When I cat the /proc/mdstat file it says: Personalities : [3 raid1] read_ahead not set md0 : inactive md1 : inactive md2 : inactive md3 : inactive I cre

Upgrading from redhat 5.2 to 6.0 raid problems

1999-07-12 Thread SB
I have taken a system with raid setup and working on a RH 5.2 system and tried to upgrade to RH 6.0.  This seems to be causing major problems.  If I use the new mkraid --upgrade /dev/md0 command I get the following error:   mkraid --upgrade /dev/md1handling MD device /dev/md1analyzing super

raid-problems after sync

1999-07-09 Thread Peter Bartosch
hello after a reboot (caused by a power fail) my raid was checked with ckraid and brought back into sync, but e2fsck sais, that the md-device-partition has zero length?? the problem is, that my /usr /home and /var on the md-device resist i used the md-tools from debian 2.0 (with a self build 2.

Hardware RAID problems

1999-07-06 Thread Kent Nilsen
Hello, I've got an external hardware RAID connected via SCSI to my Linux box (Mandrake 6.0). Linux sees it, and lets me partition and format it. The problems start when I reboot, it complains that something is wrong with the superblock on /dev/sda (the raid), try e2fsck -b 8193. I do, and it st

unexpected Busfree (was: Re: Raid problems)

1999-05-31 Thread Hans Aschauer
[posted&mailed] Nick Vermeer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have linux-2.2.6 + raid-0145-2.2.6 patches running on an SMP Dual PIII-500 w/ > 512MB ram > > 2 Adaptec 2940U2W's w/ IBM 9.1 Gig 10,000RPM LVD drives > > Current config > > SCSI IDControler Card > 0

Re: Raid problems

1999-05-30 Thread Gerard Roudier
used by devices to report serious errors to initiator and should not make problems. The behaviour of the driver seems not normal to me. Gérard. On Wed, 26 May 1999, Nick Vermeer* wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Raid problems > > I have linux-2.2.6 + raid-0145-2.2.6 patche

RE: Raid problems

1999-05-29 Thread Russell Berry
I'm no expert, but here's a suggestion, in your kernel compile don't allow multiple luns, and in your scsi card configs, turn 'allow disconnect' off on those drives. Russell On 26-May-99 Nick Vermeer* wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Raid problems >

Re: Raid problems

1999-05-28 Thread Nick Vermeer*
I've moved the PCI cards, and the cables are well withen spec (Max length is 12m on LVD) I have literally changed out all the hardware and the problem reoccurs, yet another chain in the same box with the same equipment works perfectly. I'm pondering trying 2.2.7 to see if that has any bearing.

Re: Raid problems

1999-05-28 Thread Drew Puch
> May 22 00:45:10 shamu kernel: (scsi1:0:1:-1) Unexpected busfree, LASTPHASE =0x40, >SEQADDR = 0x15d > May 22 00:45:10 shamu kernel: (scsi1:0:1:0) No active SCB for reconnecting target - >Issuing BUS DEVICE RESET. > May 22 00:45:10 shamu kernel: (scsi1:0:1:0) SAVED_TCL=0x10, ARG_1=0xff,

Raid problems

1999-05-27 Thread Nick Vermeer*
I have linux-2.2.6 + raid-0145-2.2.6 patches running on an SMP Dual PIII-500 w/ 512MB ram 2 Adaptec 2940U2W's w/ IBM 9.1 Gig 10,000RPM LVD drives Current config SCSI IDControler Card 0 scsi1 0 scsi0 1 scsi1 2

Re: Raid problems 2.2.9.

1999-05-27 Thread A James Lewis
It's not my machine, so no... sorry not yet... but I can say that downgrading to 2.2.7 works for me I will be looking at this again at some stage but I'm no C programmer James On Tue, 25 May 1999, Shaun Sharples wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having exactly the same problem.. CPU ti

Raid problems

1999-05-24 Thread René Bärecke
Hi all, I "played" a litte with raid today and experienced some problems: I have a generally stable system running RH 5.2, 2.2.9, raid-2.2.6 and NFS-2.2.9-patch; 2xPII-350, 256MB; 4 Raid devices: mirror for root, 3xraid5 (1.5,2 and 55GB). Then I did some things to it like rebooting it the hard

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-23 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi I followed the discussion and wanted something to say about the "changed" topic, which is now more "learning in a real enviroment or not". First time I started with linux on my machine at home, I thought like "hm, linux is much better than windows as I was told so I can sweep away my windows

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-21 Thread Piete Brooks
[ I've delayed reply to this one to try to work out how to express myself better, but have failed, so sorry -- it's not as clear as I'd hoped ] >> o Learning >> Granted, no speed improvements, but you can learn about it. >> Knowledge like that comes in handy in Interviews ;-) > But y

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-21 Thread Robert (Drew) Norman
I would like to thank everyone for helping me solve my RAID problems. With the kernel patch everything seems to work ok now. I see great increases in speed over the raid-0.50 I was running before. I was attempting to use a single disk as a raid because I was testing it before i put it on a

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread Dietmar Stein
Ok, thanks for the answer; I didn't get in this conflict, but I wondered, because it seemed that the raidtools are able to recognize the devices on which raid is built and check if there are multiple devices instead of only one. For testing and some other things it may be a good idea to set up ra

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread Drew Norman
Thanks for the many responses, everyone. Just so you know, the reason I am creating a raid on a single disk is because I am testing the raidtools before I put it on some larger file servers. I have run into a new problem now. When I run raidstart I get an error. I first created /etc/raidtab

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-17 Thread dave
I have done a similar setup on 2.0.36 (same version of raidtools & patches, Redhat), three partitions on the same physical disk, in order to get the hang of 0.90 before putting it on my production server. I assume that's what you're (he's) doing. It works with a bunch of partitions on t

Re: Raid problems 2.2.9.

1999-05-17 Thread A James Lewis
Well, I didn't get a reject updating from 2.2.8 to 2.2.9, but looking, I have manually merged this file before Also, I didn't test the patches with 2.2.8, although 2.2.7 worked fine. On Sun, 16 May 1999, Paul Jakma wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, A James Lewis wrote: > > Hi, > > I'

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Chris Price
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Bill Anderson wrote: > Chris Price wrote: > > > > Robert, why are you running raid on 1 disk??? > > > > What benefit do you expect to derive from running raid on a single > > disk? > > > > Unless you have a special application, there is **NO**

Re: Raid problems 2.2.9.

1999-05-16 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 15 May 1999, A James Lewis wrote: Hi, I've patched my kernel to 2.2.9 (After applying the 19990421-2.2.6 (To 2.2.6)... It worked until 2.2.9, then it appears to work but an array will never sync under 2.2.9... it just gradually increases the estimated time to completio

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Will the raidtools recognize that there is only one device? I think, he wants to set up raid only on one disk for testing. Greetings, Dietmar m. allan noah wrote: > > you dont want to do this. the raid code wont let you IIRC. > raid is for spreading your data across multiple drives, for da

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Piete Brooks
> mkraid: aborted As I have pointed out several times on this list, the above message actually means "Please see /var/log/messages for details". As others have pointed out, having multiple RAID0 partitions on the same disk isn't a good idea (at least, not with single head-per-surface disks), a

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread Bill Anderson
Chris Price wrote: > > Robert, why are you running raid on 1 disk??? > > What benefit do you expect to derive from running raid on a single > disk? > > Unless you have a special application, there is **NO** point to > creating a raid array from one disk. > >

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-16 Thread jlewis
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert (Drew) Norman wrote: > I have a IBM 9GB drive split into 3 partitions of equal size. > > raiddev /dev/md0 > raid-level0 > nr-raid-disks 3 > nr-spare-disks0 > chunk-size16 > > device

Raid problems 2.2.9.

1999-05-15 Thread A James Lewis
Hi, I've patched my kernel to 2.2.9 (After applying the 19990421-2.2.6 (To 2.2.6)... It worked until 2.2.9, then it appears to work but an array will never sync under 2.2.9... it just gradually increases the estimated time to completion forever Any ideas? I know there was some buffer chan

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Most of the problems with raidtools 0.90 belong to a missing kernel patch, a missing "--really-force"-option to mkraid and a missing recompilation of the kernel and last a reboot to activte the new raidtools. Are you sure that you have done all those things before? Greetings, Dietmar Robert

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Price
Robert, why are you running raid on 1 disk??? What benefit do you expect to derive from running raid on a single disk? Unless you have a special application, there is **NO** point to creating a raid array from one disk. Chris On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert (

Re: Raid problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Robert (Drew) Norman wrote: > I can not get raidtools-0.90 to work. I have attempted everything I know > to do. I have used the raidtools-0.50 before with no problems. I am > running the following: have you patched the 2.2.8 kernel with the latest RAID driver patch? You

Raid problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Robert (Drew) Norman
I can not get raidtools-0.90 to work. I have attempted everything I know to do. I have used the raidtools-0.50 before with no problems. I am running the following: Redhat Linux 6.0 with 2.2.8 recompiled kernel. 448MB RAM raidtools-0.90 I have a IBM 9GB drive split into 3 partitions of equal s

RAID problems on ANS

1999-05-13 Thread Kevin Myer
Hi, I'm attempting to make a RAID 5 on an Apple Network server 700. This machine has three SCSI busses (one external and two internal). The two internal are run by a NCR53C825a chip for each bus. There is a hot swappable backplane that these two busses are split across and I have 7 4 Gb Seagat

Re: Newbie RAID problems

1999-01-09 Thread John P . Looney
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 12:06:34PM -0200, Carlos Carvalho mentioned: > John P . Looney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 January 1999 13:41: > >minbar# raidstart --configfile /etc/raid1.conf /dev/md01.conf /dev/md0 > > Hm... You should list the real partitions to raidstart I think... > > # raidst

Re: Newbie RAID problems

1999-01-08 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 01:41:07PM +, John P . Looney wrote: > Hi, sorry to bother you all about this, but I have a few questions. First: > > I'm working off the latest snapshot of Raidtools-0.90, and a 2.2pre1 > kernel, with RAID-1 built in (not as a module). did you apply the raid patche

Newbie RAID problems

1999-01-07 Thread John P . Looney
Hi, sorry to bother you all about this, but I have a few questions. First: I'm working off the latest snapshot of Raidtools-0.90, and a 2.2pre1 kernel, with RAID-1 built in (not as a module). In the QuickStart.RAID file, it says that mkraid will work like: $ mkraid /etc/raid1.conf It doe