Re: Swap on Raid1 : safe on EIDE disks ? =no hangs ?

2000-01-07 Thread Robert Dahlem
Benno, On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 13:07:16 +0100, Benno Senoner wrote: I was wondering if this procedure (swapping on Raid1 + waiting for the resync), is safe on an IDE only system ? I don't need hot-swapping, the only thing I need is that if one disk dies, swapping will not take down the disk (hangs

Re: WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-06 Thread Robert Dahlem
Ingo, On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:14:07 +0100 (CET), Ingo Molnar wrote: I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 together with kernel 2.2.14: at least in my configuration (two IDE drives with RAID-1, root on /dev/mdx) the kernel panics with "B_FREE inserted into queues"

WARNING: raid for kernel 2.2.11 used with 2.2.14 panics

2000-01-05 Thread Robert Dahlem
Hi, I just wanted to warn everybody not to use raid0145-19990824-2.2.11 together with kernel 2.2.14: at least in my configuration (two IDE drives with RAID-1, root on /dev/mdx) the kernel panics with "B_FREE inserted into queues" at boot time. This seems to be some kind of a known problem,

Re: Help Raid for sparc

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
James, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:26:19 -0800 (PST), Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: I vote for maintaining the Doc's , [...] And do you volunteer to? :-) Regards, Robert

Re: Trouble autodetecting at boot

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
David, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 03:03:35 -0800, David Cunningham wrote: Here's the situation. I've read the Howto. I've got 2 EIDE disks running RAID-1 under Redhat 6.0. The partition types are fd, the kernel option for autodetecting RAID is set, and md0 was built with persistent superblock. Here

Re: HELP, switched disks !!

1999-11-26 Thread Robert Dahlem
Chris, On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:40:37 +0100, KS wrote: We just had some memory added in our server that is on some remote location. The guy also switched the disks that were in the raid1. He connected them to wrong cables, when he realised that sth is wrong, he connected them like before and as

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-17 Thread Robert Dahlem
Luis, On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:00:43 -0500 (EST), Luis Costabile wrote: Thanks Robert. I'm now able to boot from the boot partition of the second drive. Well, that's what we wanted. :-) One question, where do you find out that sdb is supposed to be bios=0x80 what about sda ? sdb becomes

Re: New user troubles: (1) booting (2) size?

1999-11-17 Thread Robert Dahlem
Stephen, On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:05:19 -0800 (PST), Stephen Walton wrote: Well I'm a new convert to software RAID on Linux. The system I'm presently using is a P-150 with Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, single SCSI hard disk which is the boot drive, and a new pair of Western Digital Caviar 20.5

Re: booting from second drive.

1999-11-15 Thread Robert Dahlem
Luis, On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:49:07 -0500 (EST), Luis Costabile wrote: Hello, I installed root as a mirrored volume. I have two SCSI disks only in the system. According to the HOWTO it's suggested to have /boot reside on a separate partition on each disk. I installed the kernels and other

Re: adding/removing linear raid drives

1999-11-11 Thread Robert Dahlem
Jakob, On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:55:56 +0100, Jakob stergaard wrote: After a change you can mkraid the array again, and if you have an ext2 filesystem on it, you can probably use ext2resize to resize that to fit the new size of the array. Note however, that ext2resize only supports *growing*

Re: Replacing a RAID-1 mirror drive

1999-11-10 Thread Robert Dahlem
Matt, On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:18:37 -0500, Matt Kimmel wrote: I am running a RAID-1 mirror set of two disks on our Linux server here. A couple of weeks ago, one of the mirrors went bad. While waiting for a replacement, I ran the mirror with a single drive, which worked fine. However, now

RE: errors on boot

1999-01-16 Thread Robert Dahlem
Michel, On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 10:24:15 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote: physical? The other two partions on the same drive work dandy with their RAID, it looks like just this one partition on the drive is bad. How, in a nutshell, do I fix this sucker? try raidhotremove /dev/mdx

RE: errors on boot

1999-01-16 Thread Robert Dahlem
Michel, On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 11:00:36 -0500, Michel Pelletier wrote: physical? The other two partions on the same drive work dandy with their RAID, it looks like just this one partition on the drive is bad. How, in a nutshell, do I fix this sucker? try raidhotremove /dev/mdx