promise problems

2000-11-29 Thread octave klaba
Hello, We have about 20-25 servers running with raid-soft ide with promise 66 100. The first configurations were very stable (we had a server with 60 days uptime load 70, 70, 70 and making 50-80req/sec), but now we have only the problems with: no way to have a configuration stable. we usally

Re: promise problems

2000-11-29 Thread Friedrich Lobenstock
octave klaba wrote: So my question is: is there any another ide cart working on linux ? You might want to try this card. Despite the fact that its hardware raid feature is not supported under linux (the don't give out the needed info) it's a normal pci ATA100 ide card.

Re: promise problems

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Dresser
Is the HPT370 more stable than the HPT366? I've ran into nothing but problems with the HPT366 under heavy load. Had to put a Promise U/33 card in the NT server here, because the onboard HPT366 would lock up randomly. My own machine, if i use the onboard HPT366, bring up windows find, search for

Re: promise problems

2000-11-29 Thread Friedrich Lobenstock
Mike Dresser wrote: Is the HPT370 more stable than the HPT366? Sorry but I can't tell you because I never used the HPT366 before. MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: promise problems

2000-11-29 Thread octave klaba
Friedrich Lobenstock wrote: octave klaba wrote: So my question is: is there any another ide cart working on linux ? You might want to try this card. Despite the fact that its hardware raid feature is not supported under linux (the don't give out the needed info) it's a normal pci

Re: we are finding that parity writes are half of all writes when writing 50mb files

2000-11-29 Thread Hans Reiser
We gave Neil Brown's patch a try, it is about three times faster than the stuff in the kernel. It avoids the unnecessary parity writes I first complained about when writing 50mb files, and we are going to document for reiserfs users that they should be using his patch. Hans - To unsubscribe

PATCH - md - initialisation cleanup

2000-11-29 Thread Neil Brown
Linus, here is a patch for test12 which cleans up the initialisation of raid personalities. I didn't include it in the previous raid init cleanup because I hadn't figured out the inner mysteries of link order completely. The linux-kbuild list helped there. This patch arranges that each