Re: Solved: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes - thanks

2005-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote: > >Well, do your disks, your controller and your driver support SATA > >Hotplug? If one of them does not, don't wonder about system freezes :) > > Thanks for your answer. It is new knowledge for me. > > My motherboard does not support SATA Hotplug. Weird, t

Re: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > some motherboards does NOT like ( recognize ) tne 2nd disk on the same > ide cable if the primary disk is offline SATA != IDE. > you can also dd if=/dev/zero on the disk ( /dev/hdc ) too and try to see > if the sw raid ( running on /dev/hda ) rebuilds it fo

Solved: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes - thanks

2005-12-15 Thread Jan Stavel
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Jan Stavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) ... But if I try to power off a disk (unplug the power cable) the system freezes. I cannot read /proc/mdstat. The only way to get the system Well, do yo

Re: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote: > VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) > Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) According to http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html#via this supports SATA hotplugging in hardware. Good. Do kee

Re: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jan Stavel wrote: > I switched off raid in Bios and installed Software Raid: > >Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] >md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] > 497856 blocks [2/2] [UU] good > But if I try to power off a disk (unplug the power cable) the sy

Re: Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Jan Stavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) ... > But if I try to power off a disk (unplug the power cable) the system > freezes. I cannot read /proc/mdstat. The only way to get the system Well, do your disks, your controller and you

Soft RAID1 and SATA - Hardware failure test - I power off disk and system freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Jan Stavel
Hello, I installed debian 3.1 on server: vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 47 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 2199.844 with ViaPro chipset and SATA disks VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T