RE: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-12 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Steve, > The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has > someone who started by using the whole drives but she now > wants to use partitions because the array is not starting > automatically on boot (I think that was the symptom). I'm > guessing this is because there is no partigio

Messed up creating new array...

2006-09-08 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Folks, I messed up slightly when creating a new 6-disk raid6 array, and am wondering if there is a simple answer. The problem is that I didn't partition the drives, but simply used the whole drive. All drives are of the same type and using the Supermicro SAT2-MV8 controller. This is a problem bec

RE: SATA ontrollers and Linux MD

2006-08-31 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Folks, > I'm currently using a Promise Technologies TX4300 SATA II > 3.0GB/s controller, to which are connected 4 Seagate > Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB drives. I've only had > this setup for > 2 weeks but so far I'm happy with it. The controller is PCI > and costs about $66. the drive

SATA ontrollers and Linux MD

2006-08-30 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Hi, I've a file server running on an Athlon XP 3200+ motherboard, currently using a mixture of PATA and SATA-150 drives and Fedora Core 5 Linux. 5x 120GB Seagate drives form a single raid-5 volume. One of those drives has failed, the rest are old, and I'm looking to replace all of them. I'd appre

Re: Strangeness when booting raid1: md5 already running?

2005-03-22 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
9 and hda9 removed. which wasn't part of an array but couldn't be added to one. Nothing particularly interesting. Ok. I'll just re-add the drive and see what happens. Thanks Ruth -- Ruth Ivimey-Cook Software engineer and technical writer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Strangeness when booting raid1: md5 already running?

2005-03-21 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
thoughts on why this happened? Ruth -- Ruth Ivimey-Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Strange shift to readonly mode on raid5

2005-03-08 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Hi, I've just spent a couple of hours sorting out my server after it, for an unknown reason, threw a wobbly and froze. One of the stranger aspects of this is that once I got it more-or-less working, I found that the raid5 array on the server was being switched to readonly mode very early on in th

Re: [PATCH] Re: What is 2.4.0-test10: md1 has overlapping physical units with md2!

2000-11-20 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
ync, md%d has >overlapping physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2)); >+ printk(KERN_INFO "md: serializing resync, md%d has >shares one or more physical units with md%d!\n", mdidx(mddev), mdidx(mddev2)); > serialize = 1; >