Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Timo Railo
[ Either me or my mail program is going nutty... I could have sworn that I replied to the list, not you Justin. Sorry. ] After much much headache (and almost buying new serial ata raid hw setup etc.), I got it to work (almost). Solution: compiling my own kernel. You should have warned me

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Timo Railo
Something is wacky. Any idea what could be causing such a poor performance. Quite new hardware, normal IDE, disks in separate BUSses. tmoby:~# hdparm -T /dev/md0 hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdc /dev/md0 /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1828 MB in 2.00 seconds = 914.00 MB/sec Timing

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Timo Railo wrote: Something is wacky. Any idea what could be causing such a poor performance. Quite new hardware, normal IDE, disks in separate BUSses. tmoby:~# hdparm -T /dev/md0 hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdc /dev/md0 /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1828 MB in 2.00 seconds =

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Timo Railo
Thanks Benedict, this is what happened (also tried just -d1). hdparm -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted IO_support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 0 (off) Man this is tough... Timo

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Hi Timo. On Wednesday 18 February 2004 08:19, Timo Railo wrote: Thanks Benedict, this is what happened (also tried just -d1). hdparm -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-18 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Timo Railo wrote: Thanks Benedict, this is what happened (also tried just -d1). hdparm -d 1 -c 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted IO_support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 0

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-12 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:05, you wrote: [snip] You're going to have problems with that setup. You can't have a raid using part of a disk (hdc2) and the entire disk (hdc). You should be using two partitions, like this: # cat /etc/raid/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 16:38, Timo Railo wrote: Hi! I'm having problems getting software raid to work with my IDE drives. I had Redhat9 installed previously on the same machine (with working software raid setup), but I'm now moving to Debian. My kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4 and has support

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread Justin Guerin
Timo Railo wrote: Hi! I'm having problems getting software raid to work with my IDE drives. I had Redhat9 installed previously on the same machine (with working software raid setup), but I'm now moving to Debian. My kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4 and has support for RAID1, which I'm trying to

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread Timo Railo
Hi David, thank you for your reply! I've tried putting it to /etc/fstab, but getting the error on boot time. And since it's remote computer, it's a little inconvenient cause it won't continue the bootup process without keyboard input. Here is my fstab setup: /dev/hda1 /

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 09 February 2004 10:16, Timo Railo wrote: Hi David, thank you for your reply! I've tried putting it to /etc/fstab, but getting the error on boot time. And since it's remote computer, it's a little inconvenient cause it won't continue the bootup process without keyboard input. Here

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread Timo Railo
I've tried putting it to /etc/fstab, but getting the error on boot time. And since it's remote computer, it's a little inconvenient cause it won't continue the bootup process without keyboard input. Here is my fstab setup: You should use the option noauto instead of defaults while you're

Re: Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-09 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 09 February 2004 11:05, Timo Railo wrote: [snip] Your fstab file for your raid device is correct. What does your /etc/ raidtab and /etc/raid/raidtab look like? /etc/raidtab should be a link to /etc/raid/raidtab. Post the contents of /etc/raid/raidtab, and we may be more able

Software RAID problems (bad filesystem type)

2004-02-08 Thread Timo Railo
Hi! I'm having problems getting software raid to work with my IDE drives. I had Redhat9 installed previously on the same machine (with working software raid setup), but I'm now moving to Debian. My kernel is 2.4.18-bf2.4 and has support for RAID1, which I'm trying to create. I'm following