Re: New on list and some questions

1999-11-01 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Shoggoth wrote: Hi, My RAID is like this : IDE0 hda1 (170mb) |--hdb1 (Seagate 210) | IDE1-hdc1 (Seagate 210) | - md0 |--hdd1 (Conner 210) | on a 486DX2-66 with

Re: kernel autodetection of software raid

1999-10-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Radomski, Mike wrote: I have redhat installed on an Alpha server and set up a Raid-0 array with 5 hard disks. I set the partition type to "fd" for all devices in the array. On boot up, the kernel recognizes the partitions as a Raid set, initializes it and then stops it

Re: Hard Vs. Soft raid?

1999-10-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, DarkMoon wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be a good hardware raid controller for use with RH 6.1? I'm looking at the Mylex extreme Raid. Is a hardware I personally (on HW raid) prefer ICP Vortex ones, search the list archives for a more detailed

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Now that someone has started this thread :) Are there any other "industrial strength" backup solutions like arkeia out there? Do you mean "industrial strenght" or "industrial GUI"? :) I got my quote for arkeia

Re: Hard Lockup.

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, John Ronan wrote: Hi, Hi, I've a problem with a Hard Lockup on a Software-Raid server #cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.6 (root@inishlar) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)) #3 Thu Jul 8 12:00:38 IST 1999 Cards in the machine are an

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote: Hi, Here is the output of df -k: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/md0 5916736 811879 4798422 14% / /dev/md1 3106031 41673 2903712 1% /var /dev/sda1

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote: Hi, [...] I'd check the jumpers to see if the unit allows hardware compression to be set by software. Check either hp.com for this or the unit documentation. Once you're sure that the unit allows it, use mt-dds to set it. I found

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I got my quote for arkeia today, and it was 7 grand. No way on my budget. Amanda looks good, but not being able to append to tapes killed it for me. What do you mean by append? As I said on a post recently, I've Can tonights

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-22 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Stephen Waters wrote: Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Thomas Seidel wrote: Hi, Here is the output of df -k: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/md0 5916736 811879 4798422

Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24

1999-10-21 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Brian D. Haymore wrote: Hi, I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but large raid sets need big backups ;-) Hehe, i'll take the oportunity also to ask a couple things ;) My HP SureStore DAT24 stops after writing 12 GB of data to a DDS-3 tape. I suspect

Re: Raid0

1999-10-09 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Pat Heath wrote: Hi, I was working on doing the autostart for raid0 and the part where it says: 3. The partition-types of the devices used in the RAID must be set to 0xFD (use fdisk and set the type to ``fd'') is confusing because I don't have a

Re: FW: Dream RAID System

1999-10-08 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Oscar Fernández Cantero wrote: Hi, This is just to tell that with almost the same configuration which has been described (Mylex Extremeraid, 4 Cheetahs of third generation), the only difference being that I use raid 0 and the system is a Dell Poweredge 6300 with

Re: Rh 6.0 autodetecting kernel

1999-10-06 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote: Hi, I just joined this list, so please be patient. I have a hundred questions but I will try to dribble in them a few at a time. On http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ you have just what you're looking for :) First, how

Re: Rh 6.0 autodetecting kernel

1999-10-06 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Stephen Millard wrote: Hi, Yo have two chances: either compile RAID support in the kernel, or make a initrd image. All support needed to autodetect the RAID (IDE, SCSI, RAID, whatever) must be available at booting time. I am using RH 6.0 and the

Re: Raid Questions

1999-09-16 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello -- there is a lot of confusing and incorrect howto's, etc. out there. I was using raid0 with kernel 2.2.5 just fine. I have upgraded the kernel to 2.2.12 in an effort to solve a SMP kernel gen problem, and I can not get raid0 to work at

Re: Mylex dac960pg

1999-07-15 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote: Installing this card in a Linux server, but disk initialization is slw. Has anyone had any experience with it? It's been working for 9 hours now, increasing the %complete by one very slowly... I assume the SCSI chain is properly

Re: Failure of device - Hard vs. Soft

1999-06-12 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Joao Rochate wrote: Hi! Sorry if this isn't best fit on this list :/ It fits :) The question here is: * If I have a software RAID enabled system and my server fails, I can move all the disks to another server and use the same /etc/raidtab to get

Re: Success!

1999-06-12 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Robert (Drew) Norman wrote: The best way to do a copy and make sure it all works is like this: find . -print | cpio -pdmv target directory Yes, it's the best way! but better use -pdamvu for cpio params... cheers,

Re: My 1st Linux Hardware Raid Project

1999-06-10 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Russ Hughes wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an archive of this list and/or recomendations for scsi pci hardware raid controller card(s). I am going to be building a cache and a news server (intel boxes) and want to use raid0 across 4x9gig ultra wide drives.

Re: RAID testing - Booting off both RAID drives

1999-06-10 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, David Robinson wrote: Hi, If you put lilo in the MBR (someone correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think you need to make the root partition bootable using fdisk as LILO runs from the MBR before even the partitions get looked at. It depends on the computer

Re: Raid-1

1999-06-03 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, John Maag wrote: Hi, I issued a mkraid /dev/md0 with a mdtab set up for a simple mirror. What do I need to do to keep the mirror active upon reboots. It seems to forget about it. Also probably related to this, I cannot mount /dev/md0 upon bootup. It

Re: raid 5 problems in 0.90 (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Till Mommsen wrote: Hi, I guess this is surely due to disks/controller (won't you be using IBM disks?) but certainly, you had luck in being able to build a raid with that config. Guess that the spare-disk wrong option went unadverted to the *picky* raid

Re: raid 5 problems in 0.90 (fwd)

1999-05-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 27 May 1999, James O'Kane wrote: Hi, I setup a raid 5 with 5 18G disks. 3 for data, 1 for parity and one hot swap. This config file I used is: What? go read http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html. Using raid without really undesrtanding

Re: Raid-1 Red Hat 6.0 problem at boot

1999-05-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Rlas Kotowski wrote: hi, I just installed Raid Level-1, it seems to run fine, I can start it, mount it, transfer files, etc.. however, the riad gets autodetected, started and the STOPPED at boot time, after the entire boot process is over and I'm logged in I

Re: Hardware RAID Solutions

1999-05-30 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, On Tue, 25 May 1999, Bobby Hitt wrote: Hello all: I'm looking for a Linux HARDWARE RAID solution that supports booting from the RAID. The hardware I know about that supports this: DPT ICP Vortex And as people have noted, Mylex. I had to recommend one for a customer

(Offtopic) Backup Systems

1999-05-13 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, First, I apologize for the "little" offtopic. But I, like most of you (if not you weren't on this list :) care for the redundancy of my important data. Raids protects against disk failure, UPS against power failure, and backups (scsi-data-corrupters controllers apart)

Was: knfs raid Re: one CPU stopped

1999-05-12 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Tue, 11 May 1999, m. allan noah wrote: [...] had to sync and the fs had to check. that took a while. the problem may have been this is a dual proc (ppro 180) machine, and one of the cpu's stopped working! mut the raid, and knfsd and ypserv running on this box continued to work, it was so

A couple of... pearls?

1999-04-24 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, I happen to came across a couple of statements that somewhat involves the use of RAID, statements that I believe are not absolutely correct, if not false, or half truths. Both come from sources I believe to be respectable, but.. who knows... First: On Philip

Re: sw raid vs hw raid - benchs suggestions

1999-04-18 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote: Hi, Hm , I have not the possibilty to set up a hw-raid and mostly not the time to do so in order for testing and comparisons, but I have a suggestion towards hw- and sw-raids. I am using sw-raids on systems like you described with just more

sw raid vs hw raid - benchs suggestions

1999-04-17 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:55:21PM +0100, Piete Brooks wrote: I'm a fan of SW RAID (a motherboard with 3 LVD busses, 2 EIDE busses, and 1 W bus kind of satisfies our disk IO requirements), but I've being pressured to buy some HW

Hot-swapping

1999-04-17 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, - Suppose you have all the raid discs on hot-swapable removable kits. - Suppose you use an active terminator hooked on the last cable connector. - Suppose you have a *non* hot-swap capable controller. Will it be possible to hot-swap discs? I mean,

Re: /dev/md0 doesnt come up on boot

1999-04-08 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Hi everyone, I created a raid-0 device as follows: 1. partitioned 4 disks 2. configured /etc/raidtab 3. ran mkraid /dev/md0 - everything reported fine 4. ran mke2fs /dev/md0 - everything went well 5. mounted /dev/md0 to verify things were ok

autodetection

1999-04-05 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
Hi, I have just forgoten a couple questions: I have followed the steps to enable autodetection of the raids, but it doesn't work. I compiled raid support as modules Any advice? *---(*)---**--

Re: New on list and some questions

1999-01-02 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Shoggoth wrote: Hi, On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, Francisco Jose Montilla wrote: [Very Good stuff snipped] - and raid level 0 sets for disk2 and disk4, as you don't care about redundancy w/ index files (you can easily recreate them). I don't know if using raid 0