Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:35:22 +0200 From: Hubert Tonneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] This a report about real production experiment using both Linux software RAID and a Mylex hardware RAID controler (real production tend to be even harder than tests, even on a lower load, since more

Re: Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
, since we are not going to use it any more. The above "bad tag" message covers a multitude of sins, sometimes including drives that become catatonic after a SCSI bus reset. * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL

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

Re: Mylex config

2000-04-09 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 00:17:51 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this true even for different classes of Mylex cards? i.e. Can a system running an AcceleRAID 250 be upgraded to an ExtremeRAID (or vice versa) simply by replacing the RAID card without having to rebuild/reformat the

Re: Mylex config

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:46:03 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a short note to aid me in my recovery here: can I remove the disks from a working array, reset the board configuration, put them back again, and rebuild the configuration - with no problem?

Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 250 dropped dead [2.2.14]

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 19:11:04 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I erased the config data, reflashed everything (and included a flash update for the AstorII chassis backplane we were using) and am now in the process of bringing back my backup

Re: Mylex AcceleRAID 250 dropped dead [2.2.14]

2000-04-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:27:39 -0300 (EST) From: Christian Robottom Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to reflash the controller roms ATM and wondering what went wrong. I've been sitting here for a couple of hours with no sleep. :-) If this works, I'm starting to believe the firmware

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-03-01 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 13:44:46 -0300 (BRT) From: Christian Robottom Reis [EMAIL PROTECTED] So my numbers aren't all that bad? I haven't tested a DAC960PG in quite some time, but your numbers didn't look too bad. Can I change the controller for another Mylex model and trust I won't

Re: Benchmark 1 [Mylex DAC960PG / 2.2.12-20 / P3]

2000-02-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:41:23 -0500 From: James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 ] Christian Robottom Reis wrote: /proc/rd/ relevant information: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N

Re: Mylex Ultra3 Cards

2000-01-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:07:17 -0800 From: "Jon Doyle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone used the new ExtremeRAID or AccelRAID 352 on Linux with the DAC960 drivers? I run SuSE 6.3 on the Ultra2 and UW DAC, AccelRAD 250, and ExtremeRAID 1164, but thought I might ask before diving into

Re: Problems with Mylex controller

1999-11-29 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
messages: * DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.2.4 of 23 August 1999 * Copyright 1998-1999 by Leonard N. Zubkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configuring Mylex DAC1164P PCI RAID Controller Firmware Version: 5.07-0-79, Channels: 2, Memory Size: 16MB PCI Bus: 2, Device: 8, Function: 0

Re: DAC960 and swap

1999-10-14 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 19:14:46 +0200 From: Vedad Kajtaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, i've purchased a DAC960 card, and i'm succesfully running it in raid1 mode with two scsi disks in hot swappable bays. The doc says it is possible to use a partition /dev/rd/cXdXpX as root disk, but

Re: DAC960 controller difficult?

1999-09-08 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "Kent Nilsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:48:11 +0200 I've also got some questions concerning the Mylex 960: I've got a JBOD box with 5 Seagate Elite23 disks, which is connected to a Mylex DAC960 PG controller (channel 0). On channel 2 (internal) I've got 5

Re: harmless (?) error

1999-08-18 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:18:00 -0400 (EDT) From: James Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, the eXtremeRAID 1100 cards are 64-bit PCI only (as are the ServeRAID cards in my previous testing). Other testing I've done has shown many situations where even our quad P6/200 machines (PC

Re: Mylex dac960pg

1999-07-14 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: "Kent Nilsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 08:42:39 +0200 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... The

Re: Failure of device - Hard vs. Soft

1999-06-12 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:42:12 +0100 From: Joao Rochate [EMAIL PROTECTED] * If I have a hardware RAID system and server fails (also the RAID controler) can I just move the disks to another server with the same RAID card model and have the system working back again? This

Re: bonnie stats for DAC960. need help: compare w/SW raid

1999-03-03 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 09:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: Chance Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec

Re: Mylex acceleraid 250

1999-02-24 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:29:40 -0500 Hi folks, This could make a pretty good howto if it has a happy ending. I got a mylex dac960 card to drive an external rack with 5-9gb scsi drives. RH5.2 (2.0.36) already is installed, on an ide hard drive.