Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Dear Raiders,
>
> I installed a 2.2.16 kernel over my Suse 6.3 (2.2.13) and patched them with
> raid-2.2.16-A0.txt.
> Installation of the raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz , which is by the way the
> same as raidtools-dangerous-0.90-20000116.tar.gz (I checked, but maybe not
> good enough), was a piece of cake. The raid 1 and rain5 is working.
>
> After pulling out one disk (system off line), it came back on line with the
> data intact... It started automatically the reconfiguration using the spare
> disk.
> The funny thing was, after reinserting the original disk it did not
> reconfigure it automatially. I had to raidhotadd the disk. Then it started
> reconfiguring it.
> Now I have an old (5years) scsi2 disk array and each disk has 3 leds. Two of
> them can be controled by the raid controller (on-line and disk-fail).
> I would like to be able to stop my raid array and switch off the power of
> this box (not the computer). If I switch the array off and on, the scsi
> disks do not spindle up. So I have to reboot the machine (scsi card spindles
> them up). This is a bit awkward.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> Can the raid-software also control the above mentioned leds?
no
> What is translucent mode?
it does not work properly, according to the help, so i ignored it.
> Which drive is my hotspare if I issue `cat /proc/mdstat` ?
the one that looks different :)
> Is it possible to modify the raidstart/stop code so that it uses scsi
> commands to start/stop the disks (in a running machine)?
not a good idea. there is no guarantee that the raid is no scsi, you should
echo the apropriate things into /proc/scsi/scsi to get that to work, no reboot
needed. look down around line 2384 in your linux kernel source in file
drivers/scsi/scsi.c
allan
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nick
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