Re: Raid 5 problems - disk keeps failing, but no obvious errors

2000-04-20 Thread Scott Thomson
on the /dev/md2 raid volume, the /dev/sdb3 partition keeps getting marked as failed. This happens consistently after about 1.5-2 days of use. /dev/md2 is where I mount /usr/local on this system, which houses apache and openldap, so I don;t think it is a cron job, or burst of activity that

Re: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000?

2000-04-20 Thread List User
I currently have 40 drives and want to merge them all into a SAN here. With the 1100 that leaves me room to add only 5 more drives. With the 2000 with the four channels I can get 20 more than what I have. I went to dandelion's web-site it mentions that Leonard is working on a new driver and

debian software raid

2000-04-20 Thread fnijen
Hi, For my internship I have install a root raid system which use the debian operating system. All the information and readme's I've found are pretty outdated and while I'm not a totall newbie on configuring and maintanance of debian systems I'm a bit nervous on taking up this task. It will

Re: Mylex Acceleraid 150 installed, but where's the device??

2000-04-20 Thread Cefiar
At 06:03 PM 19/04/00 -0700, Lee Wilson wrote: OK, I took all your advice and returned the Adaptec AAA131U2 controller back and got a Mylex Acceleraid 150 (w/16 MB). I've run the BIOS raid configuration and it sees all my drives and has created a logical drive. However, when I boot into

Software RAID1

2000-04-20 Thread Robert Hlie
Hi, I have just finished configuring a RAID 1 array. Since my system was already installed I used the "failed-disk" approach. When I tried rebooting the system Linux told me that the "persisten-superblock" was not the right size. Here are the steps I followed: RAIDTAB file: raiddev /dev/md0

Re: Software RAID1

2000-04-20 Thread m . allan noah
Robert, i bet you are using some platform other than intel? a 64bit machine perhaps? if this is the case, the raid code does not work properly without a patch. byte ordering issues, it seems. check the archive at marc.theaimsgroup.com for this patch. it was for PPC. allan Robert Hélie [EMAIL

RE: debian software raid

2000-04-20 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Take a look at the Software RAID HOWTO, which can be found at http://www.LinuxDoc.org/. It has lots of great Software RAID information. Greg -Original Message- From: fnijen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Status on drivers for ExtremeRaid 2000?

2000-04-20 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "List User" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:03:01 -0500 I was wondering if anyone here knew the status on the drivers for the Mylex ExtremeRaid 2000 card. Are they in beta yet? In the next 1-2 months I'm going to need a new raid card and could really use

[PATCH] 2.2.14-B1 bug in file raid5.c, line 659

2000-04-20 Thread James Manning
Summary: raid5_error needs to handle the first scsi error from a device and do the necessary action, but silently return on subsequent failures. - 3 h/w raid0's in a s/w raid5 - initial resync isn't finished (not important) - scsi error passed up takes out one of the devices bug

Re: Mylex Acceleraid 150 installed, but where's the device??

2000-04-20 Thread Lee Wilson
-Original Message- From: Cefiar [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:03 PM 19/04/00 -0700, Lee Wilson wrote: At any rate, assuming support in RH6.2, I am a little confused about where to find the raid device. Looking in /proc/partitions, I see a /dev/hdc with 1 head, 2147483647 sectors, and 1

H/W Raid on a Dell PowerEdge 2400

2000-04-20 Thread cspencer
Greetings - I've noticed that Dell now seems to have released drivers for the embedded raid controller on the PowerEdge 2400 series, however the drivers seem to only be appearing as compiled modules for a variety of kernels at various patch levels. However, I've been unable to find a generic

raid on 2.2.14 or 2.3.99-pre5?

2000-04-20 Thread Ryan Walters
Hi all: I have a little bit of a problem here. I've got a adaptec 152x controller in an older computer. This has 4 hard drives of approximatly 600 meg each. They are running in raid5 configuration with 2.2.14. The only problem is that the aha152x driver that is included in 2.2.14 is quite old

Re: Mylex Acceleraid 150 installed, but where's the device??

2000-04-20 Thread Cefiar
At 10:12 AM 20/04/00 -0700, Lee Wilson wrote: So I switched to a text console, and tried 'fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0' but it didn't work. I knew the device had to be there somewhere, so I went looking. I eventually found the device in /tmp/rd/ as c0d0. This appears to be a RedHat-ism. How odd.

Re: drive XOR cmd for parity generation

2000-04-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Bill BAO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anybody doing the parity generation by using the drive XOR cmd (XDWRITE, XDREAD, XDPWRITE) ? And you know of many drives supporting this ? (even the COPY command is no longer supported by any drives)