Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andrew Klaassen wrote: --- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To give you an example I get 464MB/s write and 627MB/s with a 10 disk raptor software raid5. Is that with the 9650? Andrew Sorry no, its with software raid 5 and the 965 chipset + three SATA PCI-e

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: You are using HW RAID then? Those numbers seem pretty awful for that setup, including linux-raid@ even it though it appears you're running HW raid, this is rather peculiar. No, it has been discussed numerous times on this list. SW raid is faster

Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.

2007-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bryan Christ wrote: My apologies if this is not the right place to ask this question. Hopefully it is. I created a RAID5 array with: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm -D /dev/md0 verifies the devices has a persistent

Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bryan Christ wrote: My apologies if this is not the right place to ask this question. Hopefully it is. I created a RAID5 array with: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 mdadm -D

Re: Software based SATA RAID-5 expandable arrays?

2007-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Daniel Korstad wrote: That was true up to kernel 2.6.21 and 2.6 mdadm where support for RAID 6 reshape arrived. I have reshaped (added additional drives) to my RAID 6 twice now with no problems in the past few months. You mentioned that as the only disadvantage. There are other things to

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Klaassen
--- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andrew Klaassen wrote: --- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To give you an example I get 464MB/s write and 627MB/s with a 10 disk raptor software raid5. Is that with the 9650? Andrew Sorry no,

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Andrew Klaassen wrote: --- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andrew Klaassen wrote: --- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To give you an example I get 464MB/s write and 627MB/s with a 10 disk raptor software raid5. Is that with the

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Klaassen
--- Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take your 3ware HW-raid, do a dd (read or write) to the device and see it being very quick (because it can fit all the data into its cache as it either reads or writes), then put a filesystem on it and do writes there, especially journaled

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Andrew Klaassen
--- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) $19.99 2 port SYBA cards (Silicon Image 3132s) http://www.directron.com/sdsa2pex2ir.html Cool, thanks. What are your bonnie++ rewrite numbers?

Re: 3ware 9650 tips

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Andrew Klaassen wrote: --- Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01) $19.99 2 port SYBA cards (Silicon Image 3132s) http://www.directron.com/sdsa2pex2ir.html Cool, thanks.

Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bryan Christ wrote: My apologies if this is not the right place to ask this question. Hopefully it is. I created a RAID5 array with: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5

how to deal with continuously getting more errors?

2007-07-14 Thread jeff stern
hi, everyone.. i have a problem. SUMMARY i've got a linux software RAID1 setup, with 2 SATA drives (/dev/sdf1, /dev/sdg1) set up to be /dev/md0. these 2 drives together hold my /home directories. the / and / partitions are on another drive, a standard parallel IDE (/dev/hda). (I can provide

Re: how to deal with continuously getting more errors?

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, jeff stern wrote: hi, everyone.. i have a problem. SUMMARY i've got a linux software RAID1 setup, with 2 SATA drives (/dev/sdf1, /dev/sdg1) set up to be /dev/md0. these 2 drives together hold my /home directories. the / and / partitions are on another drive, a standard

FC7 install still lacks a feature

2007-07-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
When configuring RAID arrays, advanced users should be offered the option to set the chunk size. And using ext3 or any other f/s which knows a little about RAID, the stride= option check be set to the size of a stripe, the number of data drives times the chunk size. Booting a rescue or

Re: raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check Exception: .

2007-07-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello All , I was under the impression that a 'machine check' would be caused by some near to the CPU hardware failure , Not a bad disk ? I was also under the impression that software raid s/b a little more resilient than this . But

Re: raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check Exception: .

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Mr. James W. Laferriere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All , I was under the impression that a 'machine check' would be caused by some near to the CPU hardware failure , Not a bad disk ? It indicates a hardware failure Jul 14 23:00:26

Re: raid5:md3: read error corrected , followed by , Machine Check Exception: .

2007-07-14 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Alan ( Justin) , On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Alan Cox wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Mr. James W. Laferriere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All , I was under the impression that a 'machine check' would be caused by some near to the CPU hardware failure , Not