Re: RAID questions

2000-08-08 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam McKenna wrote: 2) If I do, will it still broken unless I apply the "2.2.16combo" patch? 3) If it will, then how do I resolve the problem with the md.c hunk failing with "2.2.16combo"? If I remember correctly, 2.2.16combo was there to make it possible to use

RE: owie, disk failure

2000-08-07 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: I have to confess I've never heard of manufacturers offering diagnostic utilities for disks... Gregory, can you point me at any examples? Am I just being a complete dumbass here? At least Western Digital does on their ftp address

Re: Raid developers question

2000-07-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Art wrote: After pulling out one disk (system off line), it came back on line with the data intact... It started automatically the reconfiguration using the spare disk. The funny thing was, after reinserting the original disk it did not reconfigure it automatially. I

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: If raid on 2.4 is fast than raid in 2.2, we say "great". If it is slower, we look at the no-raid numbers. If no-raid on 2.4 is slow than no-raid on 2.2, we say "oh dear, the disc subsystem is slower on 2.4", and point the finger appropriately. If

Re: raid5 troubles

2000-07-20 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Hermann 'mrq1' Gausterer wrote: but when i do mkraid, i get an error :-((( [root@mrqserv2 linux]# mkraid /dev/md0 handling MD device /dev/md0 analyzing super-block disk 0: /dev/sdb1, 4233096kB, raid superblock at 4233024kB disk 1: /dev/sdc1, 4233096kB, raid

Re: upgrading a raid kernel

2000-07-11 Thread Danilo Godec
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote: I want to upgrade a machine running 2.2.10 kernel running software raid to 2.2.16. I only found raid patches ending with 2.2.11 (ftp.fi.kernel.org), will this work on 2.2.16?? And, is patching and installing the new kernel enough to get

Re: Problem with raidhotremove

2000-06-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Neil Brown wrote: If you don't have raidsetfaulty (so RedHats don't have it), grab the latest raidtools from http://www.{country}.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha/raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz I think you can get more recent raidtools from

Re: 2.2.16 RAID patch

2000-06-15 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Matthew DeFoor wrote: now! sdb6's event counter: 0006 sda6's event counter: 0006 request_module[md-personality-3]: Root fs not mounted Seems to me you have raid1 compiled as a module. That's OK if you really know initrd stuff, but personally I prefer to compile

Re: Software Raid on linux 2.2.14/5 with version 0.90.0 of raidtools

2000-06-09 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Maria Blackmore wrote: In a nutshell, it simply doesn't work, there isn't much more I can say than that, because that is just it. In a nutshell, get the patches (http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/raid-patches/), compile the kernel and off you go. needless to say, niether the

Problems again

2000-03-28 Thread Danilo Godec
Today, I had another SCSI failure. I was able to get a bit more of dmesg stuff, but can't figure out, what is going wrong there. In /var/log/messages, the unusuall stuff starts with this repeated a couple of times: Mar 28 12:00:45 mail kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Parity error during Message-In phase

Re: Problems again

2000-03-28 Thread Danilo Godec
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Mike Bilow wrote: That's a hardware problem. A SCSI parity error is reported by the hardware and simply passed up the chain. Unless there is something seriously wrong in the aic7xxx sequencer code, which I doubt, this looks like a typical cabling and termination issue.

Re: RAID5 array not coming up after repaired disk

2000-03-24 Thread Danilo Godec
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Douglas Egan wrote: When this happened to me I had to "raidhotadd" to get it back in the list. What does your /proc/mdstat indicate? Try: raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sde7 I *think* you should 'raidhotremove' the failed disk-partition first, then you can 'raidhotadd'

Re: Which patch? Kernel 2.2.14

2000-03-14 Thread Danilo Godec
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Clinton Bittel wrote: I tried patching ide_2_2_14_2124_patch.gz raid-2_2.14-B1.gz And still cannot find a mention of the Ultra 66 or 33 when I go to recompile the kernel. Is it already built in?? ide_2_2_14_2124 takes care of ATA-66 drivers. They are not

Disk or SCSI bus problem?

2000-03-13 Thread Danilo Godec
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Failed disk

2000-03-13 Thread Danilo Godec
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RE: Failed disk

2000-03-13 Thread Danilo Godec
array (for testing only) and it's looking good. Thanks, D. __ |Danilo Godec|Agenda d.o.o.| ISP for business | | jr. Syst. Admin | Gosposvetska 84 | WAN networks| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | si

Re: RAID5 and 2.2.14

2000-01-24 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, David Cooley wrote: Here's what I get when patching against a fresh 2.2.13-1.3.0 kernel source Where'd you get your source? I downloaded mine from ftp.kernel.org and it's 2.2.14-1.3.0 What is this '-1.3.0'? I don't think this is plain kernel source... If I go to

Re: raid with 2.2.13

2000-01-16 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Standardaccount wrote: How can I get raid running? BTW: I've tried to apply the kernel-patch for the 2.2.11 kernel, but patch won't work. Is there any need for the kernel- patch and where can I get it for the 2.2.13 kernel? You need to apply the 2.2.11 patch to 2.2.13

Re: kernel patch?

2000-01-14 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Edward Schernau wrote: I am running 2.2.13, whose config script has options for RAID. I have raidtools-0.90. Why/Do I need to patch? Pointers appreciated. You have to patch because plain 2.2.13 kernel has an 'old style' raid, while raidtools-0.90 are designed for 'new

Re: Performance?

1999-12-10 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Randy Winch wrote: Retested with with mem=256M: I usually use mem=12M and boot into single mode, so that memory really has almost no influence. bonnie ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block---

Re: 5*36.5 GB SoftRAID problem

1999-12-08 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jakob Sandgren wrote: No, actually i did not. I read the FAQ and according to it should it be ok to start with mke2fs _before_ the sync/(re)build was finished. Anyone else who could confirm that this should be a problem? A few days ago a bug - that could cause that - was

Re: Web page for kernel/raid updates Promise Ultra66 issues

1999-12-05 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Zach Coombes wrote: - the Ultra66 isn't supported yet. I'm running a 2.3.XX beta (yes I take digitalis regularly) as recent 2.2 kernels didn't even register the Ultra66 controllers' existence. Are the Ultra66 patches to the kernel nearing a state where we'll see

Re: Raid with new kernel

1999-12-05 Thread Danilo Godec
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, ACEAlex wrote: the 2.2.13 kernel with is the latest stable. But when i try to start using it i get a different startup screens (see belove). Do i have to patch the kernel before i use raidtools. Cause i get errors when trying to execute Yes. The RedHat kernel includes the

Re: problems with RAID fs

1999-12-03 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Terry Ewing wrote: I also manually used cp to copy about 10 or 12 of the corrupted files from the original tree to the RAID filesystem. After this, the files that I copied did not differ from the originals. It seems that files become corrupted under a heavy load

Re: ac?

1999-11-30 Thread Danilo Godec
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Cunningham wrote: I've seen a lot of recommendations for obtaining the 2.2.13ac kernel. So far I've found nothing listed with the ac suffix. What is this ac? These are Alan Cox's patches located on kernel.org mirrors in /pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/ directory.

Re: Could not change configuration.

1999-11-25 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Dong Hu wrote: Now I want to change the configuration to raid0, so I edit the /etc/raidtab file, issue mkraid --force /dev/md0, I suppose you did stop the raid device ('raidstop /dev/md0') first? Then I think you should use --really-force (this is not in the

Partitions on RAID ?

1999-11-15 Thread Danilo Godec
Hi! Can I use partitions on software raid device (/dev/md0, raid-5 in my case)? Using 2.2.13 with raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 patch and raidtools-0.90. Thanks, D.

Archive?

1999-11-12 Thread Danilo Godec
Hi! I'm new to this list and have some questions. However I'd like to first browse through the list archive if it's available somewhere. Is it? :) Thanks, D.

Monitoring?

1999-11-12 Thread Danilo Godec
Hi! Ok, found an archive, but haven't found the questions/answers I was hoping to find. I have a RAID1 setup with kernel 2.2.13 and appropriate patches for 2.2.11 (only two files didn't patch correctly, as they were already patched in 2.2.13) and raidtools-0.90. Everything works nice, even

Re: Monitoring?

1999-11-12 Thread Danilo Godec
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jakob stergaard wrote: It should be fairly simple to grep for underscores in /proc/mdstat using cron+{perl,grep,whatever} and send a mail if one is found. When a disk dies it is marked in /proc/mdstat like [UU_U]. Thanks, I think I will do that. Now for