Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem

2000-08-13 Thread Matthias Koelle
Hi all, first of all...sorry for my english ;) I had a strange problem at boot time. After a reboot it disappeared, but any way I`m interested what happened, especially with this superblock inconsistency... [RAID1 System on 2.2.14,hda and hdc, Array was set up by RH installer] md: su

Re: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem

2000-08-13 Thread Craig Servin
Hi Mathias, I don't know if this is your problem. But I have had the same DMA problem when I overclocked a motherboard and the FSB was not divisible by 33( This was on a Abit BP6 ). When it was not overclocked DMA worked great. Craig Matthias Koelle wrote: > Hi all, > > first of all...sorry

Re: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem

2000-08-13 Thread Matthias Koelle
Hi all, thanks for your mail. I also know that problem, but I didn`t overlock the System. I think more and more that my problem hangs together with the removeable-frame (it`s quite a cheap plastic one). Does anyone have any experiences in this direction? What kind of removeable frame would be bet

Hardware RAID and Linux software RAID on a real production server

2000-08-13 Thread Hubert Tonneau
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 special situations append). My production server has: 2 x 8GB linux software RAID 1, Buslogic BT95

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 Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 13 12:00:21 2000 > [snip] > > So, the final unanswered question is why did the Mylex controler failed > that ungracefully if no disk contains dead blocks ? > My experimental conclusion is that Linux software RAID is even more > reliable (the two RAID set

Mostly OT: Tekram caching IDE controller

2000-08-13 Thread Edward Schernau
Anyone used the DC690 under Linux? Its a PCI card, 2 IDE busses, no CDROM support, with 4 30pin SIMM slots. Supposedly does mirroring, all of which is transparent to the OS. It doesn't require any DOS drivers. Any pointers would be apprectiated. -- Edward Schernau,mailto:[EMAI

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

2000-08-13 Thread Hubert Tonneau
Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote: > > Generally, the Mylex PCI RAID controllers take disks offline when certain types > of unrecoverable errors occur. The driver will log the reason for any disk > being killed as a console message. Without further information as to precisely > why the disks were taken

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

2000-08-13 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:03:27 +0200 From: Hubert Tonneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I removed the Mylex controler, and since it's a production server, I cannot do experiments on this one, so I cannot get any more informations (I'm sorry about that because I find very important to spend some

Re: Mostly OT: Tekram caching IDE controller

2000-08-13 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 13 12:58:36 2000 > > Anyone used the DC690 under Linux? Its a PCI card, 2 IDE busses, > no CDROM support, with 4 30pin SIMM slots. Supposedly does mirroring, > all of which is transparent to the OS. It doesn't require any DOS > drivers. Any pointers would be a

RE: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem

2000-08-13 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Matthias Koelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 3:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Problem with RAID1 at Boot time and DMA problem > > Hi all, > > first of all...sorry for my english ;) > I had a strange problem at boot time

Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-13 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Aug 13 2000, Corin Hartland-Swann wrote: > The fact remains that disk performance is much worse under 2.2.16 and > heavy loads than under 2.2.15 - what I was trying to find out was what A new elevator was introduced into 2.2.16, that may be affecting results. Try using elvtune from util

Re: Degrading disk read performance under 2.2.16

2000-08-13 Thread Corin Hartland-Swann
Mark, On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > readahead is effecting things (shouldnt, but...) > > > > mke2fs only allows block sizes of 1K, 2K or 4K, so I can't make the > > blocksize any larger... > > I meant "size of block being read", rather than filesystem block size. I've now tested