Re: more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-27 Thread Scott Laird
I have an 11 disk RAID5 set working with the new RAID code. Scott On Sat, 22 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote: > Hi Tod > > I do not see any mistake; from the theory of raid5 you should be able to > set a raid5 > with 8 disks or more. > Maybe I am wrong. > > Sorry that I can't help you further.

Re: more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-24 Thread Dietmar Stein
Hi Tod I do not see any mistake; from the theory of raid5 you should be able to set a raid5 with 8 disks or more. Maybe I am wrong. Sorry that I can't help you further. Greetings, Dietmar Tod Detre wrote: > > Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. > > I'm Tryin

Re: more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-23 Thread James Blanding
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Tod Detre wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:51:02 -0400 > From: Tod Detre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: more than 4 disks on raid5? > > Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. > >

Re: more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-23 Thread A James Lewis
I believe there is some problem with newer 2.2.9 and possibly 2.2.8 kernels... I have only been successful with 2.2.7 On Thu, 20 May 1999, Tod Detre wrote: > Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. > > > I'm Trying to make a 8 disk raid5 array and I'm having

more than 4 disks on raid5?

1999-05-21 Thread Tod Detre
Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ/known problem, but I just joined the list. I'm Trying to make a 8 disk raid5 array and I'm having problems. Every time I mkraid it get part way through and crashes the machine. It must not be a hard crash because softdog catches it and reboots the machine. I get no