Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Raid 1 howto

2005-04-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi, * Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED], Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:54:10 PM: It is a bit tricky, but works very well. I wrote a rough HOWTO in this message: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/118475 Very Cool, especially as this is using mdadm. But this might be a problem, if you

[gentoo-user] Re: Raid 1 howto

2005-04-01 Thread Remy Blank
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: To protect my home server i'm thinking to create a raid1, because this is the first time for me i have looked around for some howto's. There are quite a lot howto's(1), but its always from scratch, does anyone know a howto for changing a working system into a raid1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-27 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:49:12PM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an onboard Promise PDC20376 controller. So it is the same board I have. Take a look at the kernel-traffic list: RAID is archived at:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-27 Thread brett holcomb
CAn you see the drives if you boot to the Adaptec BIOS and did you set up the array there? On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 07:57:05 +0100 Robert Arroyo i Andreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2003 02:03, Brett I. Holcomb escribió: Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-27 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 27 de Marzo de 2003 13:49, brett holcomb escribió: CAn you see the drives if you boot to the Adaptec BIOS and did you set up the array there? Yes, i can see the drives in the Adaptec Bios, and i can set the array there without problems.

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID (fixed for me at least...)

2003-03-27 Thread Francois Meehan
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID (fixed for me at least...)

2003-03-27 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You're welcome. Have fun with it! Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: Hi Robert,

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Francois Meehan
Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... Francois Robert Arroyo i Andreu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am trying to install a gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Miércoles, 26 de Marzo de 2003 17:46, Francois Meehan escribió: Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... No really.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mike Williams
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the same problem, my raid controller is a 2100s Raid controller, certified for RH and suse, obviously not for Gentoo... I hate that, there should be no such thing as certified for RedHat!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:46, Francois Meehan wrote: Hi Robert, Did you have any luck? I am having the same problem, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the array On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Which driver are you using? I have an Adaptec 3210S and I use the dpt_i2o driver. There is another dpt driver but that doesn't work with this board per Adaptec. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Is that a SCSI driver? Does the Adaptec site give any hints. On some adaptec cards I check out thier driver download section as it might give a clue as to what the linux driver is. I'm trying to use the pdcraid driver but it can't find the array On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:03, Brett I.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
It's an ATA driver, the raid controller is an onboard IDE raid controller. I've got a mirrored array setup in the hardware but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access it from linux the promise pdcraid driver looks to be broken? or do i need to specify addresses or icqs? On Thu,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
if the array is all setup in hardware shouldn't linux see the array as just a normal ide drive? i can't see it at all.. i think the MD raid stuff is screwing it up, but i can't stop the live cd from loading it. On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Then you don't have the 2100S?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Okay. Someone in this thread mentioned that they had a 2100S which according to Adaptec is a SCSI controller. I guess I thought you had the 2100S. Did you check out www.linux.doc for a How-To on IDE Raid? its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE drives plugged into it. it's an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
Is there anyway to boot the live cd with the auto raid detection/setup turned off? it's making it impossible to install gentoo on my system On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Okay. Someone in this thread mentioned that they had a 2100S which according to Adaptec is a SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Bryan Feir
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:05:50PM +1100, Mark Saunders wrote: its definitely IDE because it has two serial ATA IDE drives plugged into it. it's an onboard controller on an ASUS motherboard. Okay, what precise chip is it? You can usually get this from /proc/pci, which will list a RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RAID

2003-03-26 Thread Mark Saunders
I have an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an onboard Promise PDC20376 controller. I've setup a mirrored array with the RAID BIOS setup tool... But the BIOS setup on this system does not mention RAID at all. There is a RAID Controller option mentioned in the motherboard user guide that just doesn't