Re: access array from knoppix

2006-09-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
His advice was valid. Maybe valid but not helping with my problem since the problem is/was, that /dev/md0 didn't exist at all. mdadm -C won't create device nodes. But I figured the workaround meanwhile, so it doesn't matter anymore. (In case someone wanna know: mknod in /lib/udev/devices

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-16 Thread Molle Bestefich
Patrick Hoover wrote: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? Sounds like a very good stress test for MD. I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually happens in the IDE layer. If using USB

ATA cables and drives

2006-09-16 Thread Molle Bestefich
I'm looking for new harddrives. This is my experience so far. SATA cables: = I have zero good experiences with any SATA cables. They've all been crap so far. 3.5 ATA harddrives buyable where I live: == (All drives are 7200rpm, for some

Re: RAID5 fill up?

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Kuca , Thank you for posting this snippet . Neil , Might changing , can be given as max which means to choose the largest size that To can be given as 'max' which means to choose the largest size that help

Re: proactive-raid-disk-replacement

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Tuomas Leikola wrote: On 9/10/06, Bodo Thiesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, we need a way, to feedback the redundancy from the raid5 to the raid1. snip long explanation Sounds awfully complicated to me. Perhaps this is how it internally works, but my 2 cents go to the option to gracefully

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Steve Cousins wrote: Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Steve, The recent Messed up creating new array... thread has someone who started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm

Re: ATA cables and drives

2006-09-16 Thread Jeff Woods
At 15:16 +0200 9/16/2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: A.) Does anyone have experience with returning Hitachi, Seagate or WD drives to the manufacturer? Do they have manufacturer warranty at all? How much/little trouble did you have with Hitachi, Seagate or WD? A few years ago (but after IBM sold

Re: ATA cables and drives

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Molle Bestefich wrote: I'm looking for new harddrives. This is my experience so far. SATA cables: = I have zero good experiences with any SATA cables. They've all been crap so far. 3.5 ATA harddrives buyable where I live: == (All drives

Re: Slackware and RAID

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Davidsen
Dexter Filmore wrote: Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware? Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a little rawish, barely more than mdadm --assemble/--stop. I'm pretty much off Slack now, but I have run, the scripts you describe are about 2/3

RE: proactive-raid-disk-replacement

2006-09-16 Thread Guy
} -Original Message- } From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- } [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Davidsen } Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:29 AM } To: Tuomas Leikola } Cc: Bodo Thiesen; Linux RAID } Subject: Re: proactive-raid-disk-replacement } } Tuomas Leikola wrote: }

Re: Slackware and RAID

2006-09-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 19:26 schrieb Bill Davidsen: Dexter Filmore wrote: Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware? Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a little rawish, barely more than mdadm --assemble/--stop. I'm pretty much off Slack now,

Re: Slackware and RAID

2006-09-16 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 19:26 schrieb Bill Davidsen: Dexter Filmore wrote: Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware? Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a little rawish, barely more than mdadm

Re: Slackware and RAID

2006-09-16 Thread Dexter Filmore
What's the remaining third? I fumbled it into rc.S and rc.6, reason why I ask is that array degraded about 6 times in the few months I run it and I can't figure why. Only thing I know is that it degrades somewhere in the reboot process, so I suspect it might not properly shutdown. Have

Re: Please help me save my data

2006-09-16 Thread martin . kihlgren
Patrick Hoover wrote: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? Sounds like a very good stress test for MD. I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually happens in the IDE layer. If using

USB disks for RAID storage (was Re: Please help me save my data)

2006-09-16 Thread Daniel Pittman
Patrick Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this? I have done, as a trial. USB disk support in recent 2.6 based distributions was quite stable and reliable, and I had no significant

RE: ATA cables and drives

2006-09-16 Thread Guy
Most manufacturers give you a 1 or 3 year warranty. I must assume this indicates how long they think the drive will last. Seagate gives you 5 years. I use Seagate but have not had to return a drive in many years. I have 4 of these: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB / 16 MB /?/ SATA