Re: Packages needed

2000-07-18 Thread Hugh Bragg
Michael wrote: According to the RAID HOWTO (www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO-2.html) you are supposed to have the following packages: This document is obsolete. See the Sequel at: ftp://ftp.bizsystems.net/pub/raid/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html I've seen this URL several times

Problem with raid and new kernel

2000-07-18 Thread Dimitrios Stergiou
Hi all, i have raid 0 setup in my box, and today i have a strange problem. I compiled kernel 2.2.16, included all RAID[0,1,2,3,4] as modules, cretaed an initrd image (mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-10.img 2.2.16-10) and rebooted. The system, under no circumstances booted. It complained about

Re: Problem with raid and new kernel

2000-07-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:20:58PM +0300, Dimitrios Stergiou wrote: I compiled kernel 2.2.16, included all RAID[0,1,2,3,4] as modules, cretaed an initrd image (mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-10.img 2.2.16-10) and rebooted. The system, under no circumstances booted. It complained about "md0

RAID1 on SuSE?

2000-07-18 Thread Gregory Ade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm trying to install RAID1 on a SuSE box. The box has two identical 20-ish GB disks in it, ATA/66. SuSE is installed on /dev/hda (in various partitions: /boot / /var and so on). According to the Software-RAID HOWTO, I can create a RAID

Re: RAID1 on SuSE?

2000-07-18 Thread m . allan noah
you must patch your kernel with the latest raidcode for this to work. you are using a kernel with the old raidcode in it, but trying to use the new tools on it. get latest tools and raid patches from www.redhat.com/~mingo/ apply patch, build new kernel with the raid levels you need built in

Re: Packages needed

2000-07-18 Thread Michael
According to the RAID HOWTO (www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO-2.html) you are supposed to have the following packages: This document is obsolete. See the Sequel at: ftp://ftp.bizsystems.net/pub/raid/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html I've seen this URL several times before but

Re: speed and scaling

2000-07-18 Thread Marc Mutz
Dan Hollis wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Marc Mutz wrote: Look, you are an the _very_ wrong track! You may have 6 or 7 PCI _slots_, but you have only _one_ bus, i.e. only 133MB/sec bandwidth for _all_ 6 or 7 devices. You will not get 90MB/sec real throughput with a bus bandwidth of

RE: speed and scaling

2000-07-18 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Enough with the vulgarities. This doesn't really belong on the RAID list any longer, but I'll make a few points below. -Original Message- From: Marc Mutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The alphas we have here have the same number of slots. But not only one bus. They typically

RE: speed and scaling

2000-07-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/gs80/index.html This isn't even the top of the line Alpha, but it has 16 (that's F in hex, or 20 in octal) PCI busses. Again, you PAY for that kind of machine. That machine costs around US$2million. -Dan

Problems configuring RAID on RedHAt Linux 6.2

2000-07-18 Thread Vivek Singh
Hi Everybody, I need some help in configuring Raid based mirroring on a HP Netserver LH4 (Intel based) system running Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Kernel ver. 2.2.14-5.0smp). This system has a 9 GB disc, on which the OS has been loaded. Also, there are 2 identical 36 GB discs, which have been configured

Re: PATCH raid1.c - possible deadlock under high memory pressure

2000-07-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: I managed to reproduce this and, at least for me, it is caused by a deadlock when kflushd tries to write out data via raid1, raid1 tries to allocate memory, which blocks waiting for kflushd to free up some memory. Hmm.. This is actually what

Hardware raid

2000-07-18 Thread Gabor Z. Papp
Hello all, when I buy an ide hardware raid card, and I want run it on linux, I need linux driver to use it?

Re: Problems configuring RAID on RedHAt Linux 6.2

2000-07-18 Thread Luca Berra
Gosh, you made abitof a mess On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:59:11AM -0700, Vivek Singh wrote: I installed Linux on the system. Now when the system boots up, I cannot see either of the 36 GB discs. The raidtools utility (ver 0.90) was installed yes, they are already mirrored you see only 1 36G

Raid1: How to verify that mirroring is functioning

2000-07-18 Thread root
Hi, I've created mirrored striped arrays (Raid10) and am not confident that my first striped set is in fact being mirrored on my second striped set. When the mirrored mdX devices are created, cat /proc/mdstat does show that re-synching is taking place. However, if I mount an mdX that is part

Re: PATCH raid1.c - possible deadlock under high memory pressure

2000-07-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: I managed to reproduce this and, at least for me, it is caused by a deadlock when kflushd tries to write out data via raid1, raid1 tries to allocate memory, which blocks waiting for kflushd to free up some memory. Hmm.. This is actually what

Cannot compile Kernel w/ MegaRaid support

2000-07-18 Thread Andrew B. Cramer
Hi Group, I cannot get 2.2.13-16 to complete a compile. It has all kinds of missing references, unititialized variables, etc... I am able to compile and run 2.0.38 patched w/ megaraid patches. Has anyone had success or any ideas?!? TIA - Andy Andrew B. Cramer - [EMAIL

Re: Cannot compile Kernel w/ MegaRaid support

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Stevenson
On 18 Jul 2000, at 21:03, Andrew B. Cramer wrote: Hi Group, I cannot get 2.2.13-16 to complete a compile. It has all kinds of missing references, unititialized variables, etc... Has anyone had success or any ideas?!? Upgrade your kernel - the Megaraid driver was updated in

Re: PATCH raid1.c - possible deadlock under high memory pressure

2000-07-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday July 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: I managed to reproduce this and, at least for me, it is caused by a deadlock when kflushd tries to write out data via raid1, raid1 tries to allocate memory, which blocks waiting for kflushd to

Re: Problem with raid and new kernel

2000-07-18 Thread Dimitrios Stergiou
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Theo Van Dinter wrote: When you made the initrd, did you do "--with=raid0"? (and any other raid levels you need for the root drive)? yeap, actually i tried once with: mkinitrd --with=raid0 and once with: mkinitrd --ifneeded i also tried to compile raid0 in the kernel and