Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:03:27 +0200 From: Hubert Tonneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I removed the Mylex controler, and since it's a production server, I cannot do experiments on this one, so I cannot get any more informations (I'm sorry about that because I find very important to spend some

Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Hubert Tonneau
Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote: > > Generally, the Mylex PCI RAID controllers take disks offline when certain types > of unrecoverable errors occur. The driver will log the reason for any disk > being killed as a console message. Without further information as to precisely > why the disks were taken

Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Mauritz
the last 2 years with software RAID 0 and a couple RAID 5. I've never had one array fail (knock on wood). If software RAID could gracefully handle hot plugging dead drives (adding a spare without any human intervention), I'd probably dispense with hardware RAID completely. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:35:22 +0200 From: Hubert Tonneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This a report about real production experiment using both Linux software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load,

Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Hubert Tonneau
This a report about real production experiment using both Linux software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load, since more special situations append). My production server has: 2 x 8GB linux software RAID 1, Buslogic

Hardware raid

2000-07-18 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
Hello all, when I buy an ide hardware raid card, and I want run it on linux, I need linux driver to use it?

Re: Moving form software to hardware raid

2000-07-04 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote: > Just need to know how hard it is to move from software to hardware > raid. Would I have to reformat the HD's? Any special considerations? Almost certainly, you will need to move the data elsewhere, let the raid card do its thing wit

Moving form software to hardware raid

2000-07-03 Thread Michael Ghens
Just need to know how hard it is to move from software to hardware raid. Would I have to reformat the HD's? Any special considerations?

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-20 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Gustavo Aguiar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 10:17 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc; linux-raid > Subject: Re: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi, > Does this means that I can't use Hardware Raid 5 on linux > (red

Re: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-20 Thread Gustavo Aguiar
Hi, Does this means that I can't use Hardware Raid 5 on linux (redhat 6.2) or this means that I can't use Raid 5 on linux ? (I have a adaptec aaa7869) Can I use raid 5 on linux made by software ???   Thank's again,     Gregory Leblanc wrote:   Adaptec does not have any hard

Re: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-20 Thread Listas
with 1Mb of free space. I know now that I can't make a raid device as Hardware raid but can I do it with software raid ?? Can I do this at a RH 6.2 Instalation ?? Thank's again,     Gregory Leblanc wrote:   Adaptec does not have any hardware RAID cards (at least none that are called    ada

Re: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Listas
Hi, It is a AAA133 from adaptec. I didn't found any thing saying about it at Hardware Compatibility List. Thank's Again, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > What kind of a RAID controller are you using? Is it on the list of > "supported" hardware from RedHat? > Gr

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Listas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:22 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: linux-raid > Subject: Re: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi, > > It is a AAA133 from adaptec. I didn't found any thing saying >

RE: Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Listas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 12:25 PM > To: linux-raid > Subject: Hardware Raid 5 > > Hi All, > > I'm having a big problem trying to install a RedHat 6.2 with a raid 5 > made by hardware.

Hardware Raid 5

2000-06-19 Thread Listas
Hi All, I'm having a big problem trying to install a RedHat 6.2 with a raid 5 made by hardware. A found at the net som doc's that says that after mounting my Array (3 system disks seagate of 18G and 1 spare), I initialize my installation and I don't have a single disk to make t

Re: hardware?

2000-05-25 Thread Joseph Bueno
Andrew Park a écrit : > > Hi folks. > > Which RAID hardware is known to work well with linux? > Where I work, we have special relationship with Dell, so I think our > preference is Dell's hardware, but since this new baby has to be a linux > box, if Dell's har

hardware?

2000-05-24 Thread Andrew Park
Hi folks. Which RAID hardware is known to work well with linux? Where I work, we have special relationship with Dell, so I think our preference is Dell's hardware, but since this new baby has to be a linux box, if Dell's hardware is known not to work well with linux, then we are willi

RE: IDE hardware RAID

2000-03-15 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Joerdens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 9:02 AM > To: Chris Mauritz > Subject: Re: IDE hardware RAID > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:40:57AM -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote: > > I'm going t

Re: IDE hardware RAID

2000-03-14 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:40:57AM -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote: > I'm going to start using them for applications where the data is expendible > (mp3 jukebox comes to mind) where I just want a cheap RAID 0 array to hold a > big chunk of bits. Another good application might be large web farms where

Re: IDE hardware RAID

2000-03-13 Thread Chris Mauritz
;d never use it on a busy database box, but the economics are quite compelling in certain situations. Cheers, Chris - Original Message - From: "Martin Bene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Joerdens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: IDE hardware RAID

2000-03-13 Thread Martin Bene
CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-UIDL: 71604175b56439602d5fe7f68846fb34 Hi, We will be releasing Linx 6.1 drivers in about 30 days. --- Also

IDE hardware RAID

2000-03-13 Thread Frank Joerdens
Has anyone played with the FastTrak66 Ultra ATA/66 RAID Card (info at http://www.promise.com/Products/ideraid/ft66page.htm)? Is anyone working on a driver for Linux (I've seen that the FreeBSD people are at it)? I think the idea of having IDE HW RAID is pretty cool. They even provide an IDE hotswa

Re: to swap or not to swap . . .(hardware RAID)?

2000-03-12 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:46:36PM -, Matthew Clark wrote: > Is swapping on Hardware RAID safer than software RAID? > > Matthew Clark. yes, hardware raid should appear as a normal disk to linux L. -- Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communication Media & Services S.r.l.

RE: to swap or not to swap . . .(hardware RAID)?

2000-03-12 Thread Matthew Clark
Is swapping on Hardware RAID safer than software RAID? Matthew Clark.

Re: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

2000-02-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:26:20AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > True, but even with the nifty patches that RedHat has supplied, you can only > boot from RAID 1. I was thinking you could grab two cards like this, and > create RAID-0 arrays on both, and then mirror those using Linux software > R

RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

2000-02-09 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: David Cooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:10 AM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device > > > At 09:08 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote: > &

RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

2000-02-09 Thread David Cooley
At 09:08 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote: >ok, I feel REALLY dumb now. I guess that's what I get for writing email >after 11:00 PM. >http://www.ami.com/hyperdisk/hyperdisk.html Tiger direct sells this... they have an internal card that goes between the on board controller and 2 drives to make the

RE: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

2000-02-09 Thread Gregory Leblanc
11:12 PM > To: Gregory Leblanc > Subject: Re: New(?) IDE hardware RAID device > > > [ Wednesday, February 9, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > A friend of mine just sent this to me > > what? nothing was attached that I could tell and no url.. > > James >

New(?) IDE hardware RAID device

2000-02-08 Thread Gregory Leblanc
A friend of mine just sent this to me, since I've been looking at alternatives to SCSI for my home machines because of price. Has anybody seen/looked at this, from both a performance standpoint, and a compatibility standpoint? Later, Greg

Re: Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, January 24, 2000 ] Harald Milz wrote: > The driver didn't make it to the mainstream kernel yet. Actually, it's been in the mainstream kernel for awhile... drivers/scsi/ips.[ch] James -- Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development

Re: Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, January 23, 2000 ] John Leach wrote: > Does anyone know if hardware raid is supported on the IBM Netfinity ? Some Netfinity's come with 2 Adaptec AIC-7895 controllers on the motherboard. If it's a RAID controller on the M/B then it's the ServeRAID 3H controller.

Netfinity Hardware Raid

2000-01-24 Thread John Leach
Does anyone know if hardware raid is supported on the IBM Netfinity ? The Red Hat 6.1 certification page does not mention any Raid options for the Netfinity which surprises me. Is it a Perc card or an IBM card? Any known problems? Thanks in advance, John Leach http://www.bosware.com.au Melbourne

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-16 Thread jlewis
On 14 Jan 2000, Chris Good wrote: > Much, much better - we've taken all the i960 cards out of our systems > and replaced them with strongarm based ones. Needless to say we shant > be buying any more i960 cards and our supplier is talking about stopping > shipping them as the perform so much wo

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-16 Thread Gregory Leblanc
James Manning wrote: > > [ Thursday, January 13, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > Since this list appears to be a good place for general RAID on Linux (or > > Linux on RAID?) questions, I thought I'd ask. What do people think of > > the StrongARM vs. the i960? Our i960 based cards scream, but

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Good
running at typically 2x the speed. It will be far better than that in fact, fastest i960s are 99MHz and I don't think that even the hardware XOR engine does 32bit XORs in a single cycle. [From memory in the days when I worked at ARM] all ARMs guaruntee to do 32bit XORs in 1 cycle, the newer

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-15 Thread Jason Clifford
On 14 Jan 2000, Chris Good wrote: > Much, much better - we've taken all the i960 cards out of our systems > and replaced them with strongarm based ones. Needless to say we shant > be buying any more i960 cards and our supplier is talking about stopping > shipping them as the perform so much wo

Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Since this list appears to be a good place for general RAID on Linux (or Linux on RAID?) questions, I thought I'd ask. What do people think of the StrongARM vs. the i960? Our i960 based cards scream, but we don't have any StrongARM yet (although I could probably get some if the performance is be

RE: GPLed hardware RAID card driver?

1999-12-20 Thread Jason A. Diegmueller
D and I want to use a hardware solution for a : very disk : intensive application on my Dual P2. I have found several : vendors who carry : Linux drivers for their Ultra2 products: DPT Decade PM1554U2, Mylex : AccelRAID 150/250, ICP Vortex GDT6518RD, Syred Cruiser. : However, none of the : dr

Re: GPLed hardware RAID card driver?

1999-12-20 Thread jlewis
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, jeremy smith wrote: > I am new to RAID and I want to use a hardware solution for a very disk > intensive application on my Dual P2. I have found several vendors who carry > Linux drivers for their Ultra2 products: DPT Decade PM1554U2, Mylex > AccelRAID 150/250

Re: GPLed hardware RAID card driver?

1999-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
jeremy smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DPT Decade PM1554U2, Mylex AccelRAID 150/250, ICP Vortex GDT6518RD, > Syred Cruiser. However, none of the drivers seem to be offered in > the kernel distribution, Look harder. Use grep. Mike.

GPLed hardware RAID card driver?

1999-12-19 Thread jeremy smith
Hello, I am new to RAID and I want to use a hardware solution for a very disk intensive application on my Dual P2. I have found several vendors who carry Linux drivers for their Ultra2 products: DPT Decade PM1554U2, Mylex AccelRAID 150/250, ICP Vortex GDT6518RD, Syred Cruiser. However, none

Re: scsi channels (Was: ide hardware raid)

1999-12-02 Thread Luca Berra
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:20:49PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > they have scsi-2 raid cards from adaptec... > 1-channel($430) and 3-channel($650) raid controllers.. > > a dumb question... what are the channels used for ??? scsi channels are different scsi busses, you use them for load balancing.

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Steve Cooper
drivesthat's not too shabby. Current non-production hardware (that exists today)increases that limit to 80 disk drives. Other technology indevelopment will eliminate current limitations entirely.    5) Performance. Each disk drive has it's own bus-mastering data path tosystem memory. RAI

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Seth Vidal
check out www.zero-d.com They make an eide internal uw scsi external raid box that looks pretty cool. -sv

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-02 Thread Antonio Marchisio
x27;d be interested too. Up to now I managed to use them succesfully on NT (:-( while when used with the current linux driver, I didn't find out how to enable the hardware-RAID. - Antonio -

Re: ide hardware raid

1999-12-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi all "raiders" just was at the pc store in the duilding I'm in.. they have scsi-2 raid cards from adaptec... 1-channel($430) and 3-channel($650) raid controllers.. a dumb question... what are the channels used for ??? have fun raiding... alvin http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid/Docs/rai

ide hardware raid

1999-12-01 Thread Terry Ewing
Hello, I'm an administrator in a co-location facility and recently we had a customer come in to replace a raid card. The only catch was the RAID card was IDE. This was on an NT box, but I was wondering: 1) what IDE RAID cards are out there now. What is known about them. 2) What is the s

Re: Re: Hardware RAID.

1999-11-01 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, October 31, 1999 ] Sean Roe wrote: > Okay I am really new at this, so please forgive me: > > I just run this command from the command prompt: > mkinitrd --with=dac960? > > And then modify the lilo.conf to have the same line? Ya caught me... I don't use mkinitrd's myself and if RH

Re: Hardware RAID.

1999-10-31 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, October 31, 1999 ] Sean Roe wrote: > I just subscribed to this list so I will ask my first question. I have > three machines each with Duel PIII 600s with Mylex 250 RAID controller > driving 5 9Gig SCSI hard drives. My question is I am installing Red > Hat 6.1 and it found the DAC960 d

Hardware RAID.

1999-10-31 Thread Sean Roe
Hi, I just subscribed to this list so I will ask my first question. I have three machines each with Duel PIII 600s with Mylex 250 RAID controller driving 5 9Gig SCSI hard drives. My question is I am installing Red Hat 6.1 and it found the DAC960 driver and it installed the OS to it, but I c

Re: Probable software RAID vs hardware RAID conflict -> "out of memory" kernel crash

1999-10-27 Thread Brian Grossman
> It turns out the used memory slowly increases until all the processes are > swapped out and (we're guessing) the kernel itself runs out of memory. Could > it > be that the software RAID boot patch we applied doesn't work well with the We had the same problem when we went to 2.2.11+raid. It t

Re: Probable software RAID vs hardware RAID conflict -> "out of memory" kernel crash

1999-10-27 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:41:25AM -0400, David Holl wrote: > 2.2.11 has a memory leak in its tcp code. 2.2.12 is friendly, and I'm > waiting to see how people take to 2.2.13 before test driving. The 2.2.11 > patch should apply to 2.2.12 and you can ignore the 2 rejected hunks in > fs.h I have

Re: Probable software RAID vs hardware RAID conflict -> "out ofmemory" kernel crash

1999-10-27 Thread David Holl
Raid Masters!! - -We're running RAID on two linux boxes. Both use software RAID, and one also -has a hardware RAID (Mylex DAC960/DAC1100). Our kernel is 2.2.11 patched with -raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. - -The box that only runs software RAID has no problems at all, whereas the box -that also ha

Probable software RAID vs hardware RAID conflict ->"out of memory" kernel crash

1999-10-27 Thread Enyue . Jia
Dear Oh Great Raid Masters!! We're running RAID on two linux boxes. Both use software RAID, and one also has a hardware RAID (Mylex DAC960/DAC1100). Our kernel is 2.2.11 patched with raid0145-19990824-2.2.11. The box that only runs software RAID has no problems at all, whereas the box

RE: Hardware RAID

1999-10-25 Thread Kenneth Cornetet
Title: RE: Hardware RAID I concur. The Mylex seems to give excellent results under linux. I don't think the MegaRAID is hampered by a slow processor, though. This card seems to be a good performer under NT, so it may be in the linux driver. Mylex has (had? - I haven't checked for

Re: Hardware RAID

1999-10-25 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
is hardware RAID recovery largely superior to software raid? i.e. a recovery from a bad disk in a raid1 configuration means an automatic switch to the good disk and the removal of the bad disk from the array, until a new disk is re-inserted, and at that time, hardware raid taking steps to re

Re: Hardware RAID

1999-10-25 Thread Brian D. Haymore
Matthew Clark wrote: > > Is there much info available on setting up Hardware RAID? Most info seems > to be on Software (obvious reasons).. However - as you probably noticed, I'm > having problems with my Hardware RAID and need to sort it ASAP.. > > I was thinking about

Hardware RAID

1999-10-25 Thread Matthew Clark
Is there much info available on setting up Hardware RAID? Most info seems to be on Software (obvious reasons).. However - as you probably noticed, I'm having problems with my Hardware RAID and need to sort it ASAP.. I was thinking about moving to kernel 2.2.13 but the parts of the kernel

RE: Very slow writes with Hardware SCSI RAID

1999-10-25 Thread Matthew Clark
r 1999 20:42 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Very slow writes with Hardware SCSI RAID > > > Matthew Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a PIII 500 HP Netserver LH4 with 256Mb RAM > > [ ... ] > > > If I run bonnie with 300Meg size, I get ve

Re: Very slow writes with Hardware SCSI RAID

1999-10-24 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Matthew Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a PIII 500 HP Netserver LH4 with 256Mb RAM [ ... ] > If I run bonnie with 300Meg size, I get very low performance readings. I would expect much higher throughoutput, especially with 256 MB RAM. With 256 MB RAM, I usually performance-test on 2 GB

RE: Very slow writes with Hardware SCSI RAID

1999-10-22 Thread Matthew Clark
By the way, I'm using Linux Kernel 2.2.10 SMP Matthew. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Clark > Sent: 22 October 1999 14:11 > To: linux-scsi; linux-raid > Subject: Very slow writes with Hardware S

Re: Raid bug, or is it my hardware?

1999-09-30 Thread Martin Bene
At 17:12 30.09.99 -0100, Joakim Ahlen wrote: >I run a linux box as a server with 2.2.5-15 kernel, and some raid0145 >patch (don't remember which). During the past 3 months of (almost >flawless) operation, the server has kicked out one of the raid-arrays a >couple of times. This is the log for the

Raid bug, or is it my hardware?

1999-09-30 Thread Joakim Ahlen
23498 - It seems to me, that "attempt to access beyond end of device" couldn't be a hardware error, but must depend on either the partitioning/physical SCSI disk data, OR the raid5 code. It seems just a bit too coincidental that all my devices get thi

Re: Hardware Vs. Software RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Macy
xPIII 450mhz box, and I am trying to decide whether the advantages of > hardware raid offset the additional $800-1000 (Canadian dollars) for the > card. > > The biggest thing that I need is stability and useability; I know > RAID-1 under Linux is very stable, as we have been

Re: Hardware Vs. Software RAID

1999-09-27 Thread John Leach
I've been pondering this as well. As I see it, software raid is faster than hardware raid and you can save the cost of the raid hardware but at a site where there is no sysadmin it may be better to put in hardware raid. I'd also recommend purchasing a second raid controller or a second

Hardware Vs. Software RAID

1999-09-27 Thread cprice
whether the advantages of hardware raid offset the additional $800-1000 (Canadian dollars) for the card. The biggest thing that I need is stability and useability; I know RAID-1 under Linux is very stable, as we have been running on such a setup for nearly a year now, with no probs. I have

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread James Manning
[ Sunday, September 26, 1999 ] John Leach wrote: > Does anyone know if the hardware raid on the IBM Netfinity is supported > under Linux? As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/netfinity/serveraid.html It's worth noting that it's become p

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread Luca Berra
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 08:38:41PM +1000, John Leach wrote: > Dear raiders, > Does anyone know if the hardware raid on the IBM Netfinity is supported > under Linux? > It doesn't appear (or seem to appear) on the Red Hat Certified machines list > (various Netfinities are suppo

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread Danilo Fiorenzano
"John Leach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear raiders, > Does anyone know if the hardware raid on the IBM Netfinity is supported > under Linux? > It doesn't appear (or seem to appear) on the Red Hat Certified machines list > (various Netfinities are supp

Re: IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread Brian Murphy
John Leach wrote: > > Dear raiders, > Does anyone know if the hardware raid on the IBM Netfinity is supported > under Linux? > It doesn't appear (or seem to appear) on the Red Hat Certified machines list > (various Netfinities are supported but raid is not mentioned with t

IBM Netfinity Hardware Raid?

1999-09-26 Thread John Leach
Dear raiders, Does anyone know if the hardware raid on the IBM Netfinity is supported under Linux? It doesn't appear (or seem to appear) on the Red Hat Certified machines list (various Netfinities are supported but raid is not mentioned with them) TIA John Leach

FW: Linux RedHat 6.0 & hardware RAIDS

1999-08-17 Thread Jim Medlin
Whoops, spelled it wrong the first time > -Original Message- > From: Jim Medlin > Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 3:11 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Linux RedHat 6.0 & hardware RAIDS > > Oh great Oracle of Linux RAID, > > I have

Hardware Recommendations and pitfalls to avoid

1999-08-16 Thread Christopher A. Gantz
Hello Everyone, I am constructing a linux raid protoype using (3)IDE hard drives. My platform currently consists of an HP Vectra VL with 3.5 inch floppy, a CDROM and the 3 IDE hard drives of which only 1 is connected. I would like to know what is the best contoller to use in order to construct

Re: Hardware Raid Questions/Suggestions?

1999-07-27 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, James Deptuck wrote: > Does anyone have any experiences with particular hardware raid controlers > that they'd be willing to share? > What's the most reliable controler? I have experience with the DPT 3334 in several production servers. It may not be t

Hardware Raid Questions/Suggestions?

1999-07-26 Thread James Deptuck
Hello We are purchasing a new server for our company. Does anyone have any experiences with particular hardware raid controlers that they'd be willing to share? What's the most reliable controler? What controler is the easiest to setup and recover in the event of a failure? We would l

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, a

Re: What hardware do you recommend for raid?

1999-06-14 Thread dstein2203
eless, thanks for the advice of upgrading firmware (I did not hear of it from our vendor). Dietmar >- Ursprüngliche Nachricht - >Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Betreff: Re: What hardware do you recommend for raid? >Empfänger: Dietmar Stein >Kopie-Empfänger: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What hardware do you recommend for raid?

1999-06-14 Thread Brian Leeper
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote: > I used IBM disks in one of the systems and had trouble (read my messages > with topic > Adaptec 2940 u2w timeouts), so I recommend the Seagates, because they > never caused I think IBM had some firmware problems with their older drives? I thought I hea

Re: What hardware do you recommend for raid?

1999-06-14 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi I agree to Lance, so I have nothing to add. For use of motherboard and disks, also SCSI controller, I think there are many recomendations. I got various systems with Asus mobos, Gigabyte mobos and Elitegroup mobos. All systems have one thing in common: an Adaptec controller (aic7xxx family) an

Re: What hardware do you recommend for raid?

1999-06-14 Thread D. Lance Robinson
Hi Lucio, Lucio Godoy wrote: > > The idea of using raid is to add more disks onto the scsi > controler (Hot adding ?) when needed and combine the newly > added disk to the previous disks as one physical device. > > Is it possible to add another disk without having to switch of the > machine?

What hardware do you recommend for raid?

1999-06-13 Thread Lucio Godoy
Hi All: My boss has asked me to setup a proxie server from scratch. I would like to setup the machine on the following way: Install the operating system on the Hard disd on the IDE contrler on the mother board and a scsi card connected on the motherboard and one or several disks connected to th

Re: My 1st Linux Hardware Raid Project

1999-06-10 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Russ Hughes wrote: Hi, > I'm looking for an archive of this list and/or recomendations for scsi > pci hardware raid controller card(s). I am going to be building a cache > and a news server (intel boxes) and want to use raid0 across 4x9gig ultra

Re: My 1st Linux Hardware Raid Project

1999-06-09 Thread Benjamin de los Angeles Jr.
Check out http://linas.org/linux/raid.html. On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Russ Hughes wrote: > > I'm looking for an archive of this list and/or recomendations for scsi > pci hardware raid controller card(s). I am going to be building a cache > and a news server (intel boxes) and

My 1st Linux Hardware Raid Project

1999-06-09 Thread Russ Hughes
I'm looking for an archive of this list and/or recomendations for scsi pci hardware raid controller card(s). I am going to be building a cache and a news server (intel boxes) and want to use raid0 across 4x9gig ultra wide drives. Russ

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-31 Thread Chris Mauritz
ght somoene might know how the performance of the software raid > support is versus (the typical) hardware raid? > > Hmm.. Maybe there's even a generalization that can be made? In general, I think the software RAID functions well. I've had the chance to use both RAID 0 and RAID 1 im

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-31 Thread Mike Black
One other thing that (I think) should be added to the Hardware/Software RAID discussion is the availability of the system when a drive goes bad. I've got an AIC-7880 controller running software RAID and it works OK if a disk read/write error occurs. But, if a drive totally dies the SCS

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions - summary

1999-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
i, > > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > > DPT > > ICP Vortex > >

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-31 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Dave Wreski wrote: > I thought somoene might know how the performance of the software raid > support is versus (the typical) hardware raid? > > Hmm.. Maybe there's even a generalization that can be made? Search around a bit. Everything I remember reading

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Dave Wreski
e typical) hardware raid? Hmm.. Maybe there's even a generalization that can be made? Dave

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: > Hello all: > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > DPT > ICP Vortex And as people have noted, Mylex. I had

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Chris M
the Linux 2.2.5 kernel. > > Z > > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > > &g

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 29 17:30:30 1999 > > hi bobby > > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > > > DPT > > ICP Vortex > &g

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Chris M
http://www.icp-vortex.com This stuff is really good and drivers are built into Redhat 5.2 and later. Chris > > > hi bobby > > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-29 Thread Dietmar Stein
. Greetings, Dietmar Bobby Hitt wrote: > > Hello all: > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > DPT > ICP Vortex > > I just returned an DPT 2044UW controller

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-29 Thread Mike Frisch
Bobby Hitt wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: You may also want to check into Mylex (www.mylex.com). They've actively supporting the Linux and I would suspect they have th

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-29 Thread Zivago 'Jaeman' Lee
Bobby, I tried using the DPT Millenium PM3754U2 with 32M (I2O) card it seems to be fine using RAID5 on 5 IBM U2 HDs using the Linux 2.2.5 kernel. Z On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: > Hello all: > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting f

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-29 Thread byron
] > Hello all: > > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > DPT > ICP Vortex > > I just returned an DPT 2044UW controller and caching module, performance was > AWFUL. B

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi bobby > I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from > the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: > > DPT > ICP Vortex Mylex DAC960 Megatrends MegaRAID 428 Dell PERC - PowerEdge RAID Controller ?? > I just returned an DP

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-28 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: > DPT > ICP Vortex > > I just returned an DPT 2044UW controller and caching module, performance was > AWFUL. Before I buy a ICP Vortex controller, I wanted to see if anyone knows > about any other alternatives. There's Mylex. AFAIK, of the three, DPT is a

Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-27 Thread Bobby Hitt
Hello all: I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: DPT ICP Vortex I just returned an DPT 2044UW controller and caching module, performance was AWFUL. Before I buy a ICP Vortex controller, I wanted t

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