Just wondering what the linux raid folk are using for hot swappable
carriers. I haven't been able to find a brand I'm happy with (tried
Antec and Kingston brands).
Chris
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 17 13:37:24 1998
I know this may be more of a hardware question than a specific RAID
question, but here goes. I just got a DPT RAID controller, but my
motherboard has a built-in scsi controller. So I have two scsi
controllers. My problem is that I have a
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 17 15:15:04 1998
You should be able to disable the integrated SCSI controller from the
motherboard BIOS configuration utility (usually by hitting DEL at boot
time).
I think that misses the point, I think the goal was to get both going
in order to spread
I had all kinds of problems with Adaptec SCSI controllers (both the
2940 and the 3-channel UW RAID card) on the Tyan board with linux
and NT. Adaptec says it's the motherboard. I'm inclined to agree
since switching to a Mylex 952 showed the same symptoms (same as yours).
Chris
From [EMAIL
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 6 11:25:19 1999
Jack Gavigan wrote:
While I'm not new to Linux or RAID, I am new to RAID on Linux.
I've read the Root-RAID-HOWTO about 10 times and I'm about as
confused as when I first started.
My question, I guess, is: Am I right in thinking
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 19 10:52:47 1999
| Hmm. I use SCSI on high-performance systems, but if IDE is so bad, why
| does NASA use IDE? ;)
as far as I know, beowulf tends to use the network more than the disk, so it
isn't necessary to have an extremely fast disk subsystem. RAM,
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 9 08:57:47 1999
Hi!
Anybody out there with some real world experiences
concerning HP's NetRaid (which is Symbios/NCR 53c8xx
based OEM stuff and may be covered by NCRs megaraid
driver, afaik) which comes with HP NetServer LH3 models?
I'd also be
I'd be curious to know what particular card(s) are best supported for
hardware RAID 5 under Redhat Linux 5.2. I've been using the software
RAID tools provided by mingo, but I think I need something a bit more
"static" that I can use in production.
I saw a note here not long ago about support
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 31 00:47:50 1999
I just returned an DPT 2044UW controller and caching module,
performance was AWFUL. Before I buy a ICP Vortex controller, I
wanted to see if anyone knows about any other alternatives.
I thought somoene might know how the performance of
This card isn't supported by linux. As far as I know, Adaptec
only supports NT for this particular card.
Chris
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 26 16:56:34 1999
I'm installing a hardware RAID under Linux for the first time and have read
the DPT Hardware RAID HOWTO but I'm still in need of
.
I guess I was hoping that it would work anyway using one of the existing
drivers. Is this not the case?
On Monday, July 26, 1999 1:58 PM, Chris Mauritz
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
This card isn't supported by linux. As far as I know, Adaptec
only supports NT for this particular
choice for a raid controller card for linux?
On Monday, July 26, 1999 2:42 PM, Chris Mauritz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I'm positive it will not work. It also doesn't work very well with
NT. I scrapped the one we had after it corrupted the data several
times in the space of a month
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 12 06:43:26 1999
Hi all,
is there a Linux driver for the ARO1130-u2 hardware RAID card?
No.
I found a clear statement in the compatibilitie list that the card and its
predecesors
are not supported by Linux.
Um...that's a pretty good indication that it
I'm in the process of setting up a system for my company and need a bit
of advice. We'd like to have a huge flat filesystem connected to a dual
processor RH 6.0 system. I've got a dual PIII-500 system with 256mb RAM
and dual Adaptec LVD scsi controllers. I was planning to plop the OS
on a
As I mentioned in my original note, the system is a dual PIII-500
system that will be dedicated as a file server. So there is plenty
of cpu grunt to service a software RAID. I agree that the performance
numbers seem to lean heavily in favour of software RAID over the
currently available
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 7 11:50:39 1999
What is the most reliable LVD SCSI controler for Linux ?
(I use several Buslogic controlers, but as far as I know they don't
have an LVD version, which is absolutely necessary for long SCSI chains,
and my Buslogic controlers went in an
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 15 13:50:22 1999
Good morning to everyone.
correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the current recipe is patching 2.2.12
with the latest raid alpha patch (for 2.2.11) and when patch complains
about fs.h, tell it to completely skip fs.h since changes to that
Just thought I would drop this note to the list. A couple of my 50gig
drives were "repurposed" before I could run the test so this is only
a 3 disk RAID 0 stripeset. The production system will have 8 drives
(4 on each channel). I'm wondering if this will scale linearly and
give me over
Are you sure you're not having some sort of cabling/termination
issue?
C
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 22 11:15:58 1999
Hi people,
I'm running kernel 2.2.12 with 2.2.11 raid patch. Everything seems to be
ok, except that
i cannont manage to retreive an scsi disk from one of my two
I'm getting the occasional error message of the form:
(scsi0:0:0:0) Parity error during Data-In phase.
This is on a 150gig stripeset using 3 50gig barracudas on
an Adaptec 2940u2w controller. The kernel is 2.2.12 with
the 2.2.11 raid patches.
I don't think these really are parity errors as
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 12 12:18:48 1999
It sounds like 2.3.29 forgot the raidtools patch to be included.
try patching it and enter N to any errors then try again.
SighAgain?
It would be really really nice if the kernel maintainers would
recognize the relative stability of the
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 11 21:44:29 2000
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
If you cut the cable
lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (don't break the
insulation on the wires themselves, just the connecting plastic) you can
get your cables to be 1/4 the
Both Penguin Computing and VA Linux will also ship preconfigured RAIDed
Linux boxes. They also have nifty 1U and 2U rackmount systems available.
www.penguincomputing.com
www.valinux.com
Cheers,
Chris
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 13 10:19:06 2000
Louis-David,
Monolith Corporation
with 8 18gig 10,000rpm IBM Deskstars and one hot spare. Can anyone hazard a
guess at the kind of performance I can expect from such an array?
Cheers,
Chris
Chris Mauritz
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n the 1164
This was a stock redhat 6.0 system.
Unfortunately, box only ran linux for about an hour. Alas, it was
destined
to be an NT machine.
I wished someone would port Bonnie (or tiotest) to NT.
-Original Message-
From: Chris Mauritz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday
Another amusing thing about those controllers (once a driver becomes
available) is the cheap hack to turn the cheap $35 dual channel ATA66
controller into the $130 dual channel RAID card by adding one resistor.
Details at:
http://www.geocities.com/promise_raid/english.htm
I'm going to start
From: "Rafael Gustavo Gassner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good raid adaptec controller for
using under linux?
None of the Adaptec RAID cards are supported under Linux.
Regards,
Chris
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Christopher Mauritz
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With the popularity of these new 1 RU pizza box server enclosures,
I was wondering what people are doing to get better disk throughput.
Normally these cases only hold one hard drive. Seems like if
someone made a PCMCIA drive cage that fit in a floppy disk form
factor, you could connect that to
The promise cards are nice. You can buy the cheap ata/66 ones and add one
resistor to convert them into their fastrack hardware RAID controller. See:
http://www.geocities.com/promise_raid/english.htm
The cards only cost about $25 on pricewatch.com. So you can get two
hardware RAID IDE
Just thought you guys would find it amusing that this card
worked just fine with vanilla Redhat 6.1, but gives blue
screens with both NT4 and Win2K Server. Mylex swears it is
a hardware issue and is the result of bugs in the Intel Carmel
840 chipset. I find that difficult to believe as the
Whoever "assured" you didn't know what they were talking about.
This controller is not supported by Linux AT ALL. It will not
work. It is a windows-only product. There are a number of other
products that are supported under Linux. I happen to like the
Mylex ExtremeRAID cards. They seem to be
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Apr 16 16:33:31 2000
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fw: Adaptec AAA-133U2 Raid Controller support
Whoever
Are you SURE it's not a cabling issue? I've had 2940U2w cards act strangely
both under Linux and NT when there were problems with cables or terminators.
I've gotten into the habit of using SCA drive cages and keeping the LVD
cable lengths to a minimum (just between the cage and the controller).
Yes, that is what I thought too. If slowing the bus down causes the
problems to disappear, it's almost certainly a cabling or termination issue.
Cheers,
Chris
- Original Message -
From: "Gregory Leblanc" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:28 PM
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Apr 19 21:07:22 2000
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 the 2000 over the 1100. (need the
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Apr 23 01:06:24 2000
Chris Mauritz wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 22 21:37:37 2000
Hi, im just wondering has anyone really explored the performance
limitations of linux raid ?
Recognising ones limitations is the first step to overcomming
There's "specs" and then there's real life. I have never seen a hard drive
that could do this. I've got brand new IBM 7200rpm ATA66 drives and I can't
seem to get them to do much better than 6-7mb/sec with either Win98,
Win2000, or Linux. That's with Abit BH6, an Asus P3C2000, and Supermicro
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 3 20:38:05 2000
Umm, I can get 13,000K/sec to/from ext2 from a *single*
UltraWide Cheeta (best case, *long* reads, no seeks). 100Mbit is only
12,500K/sec.
A 4 drive UltraWide Cheeta array will top out an UltraWide bus
at 40MByte/sec, over 3
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 22 23:36:35 2000
Has anyone tried installing a Mylex (either acceleraid or extremeraid)
card in one of the HP Netserver LPr 2U server systems? HP is currently
running a 2 for 1 special on them, which just barely makes the price
attractive...but only if I can
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 24 20:41:56 2000
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Have you SEEN one of these? They are *extremely* deep and are a supreme
pain in the ass to deal with unless you have 4 poster cabinets instead
of racks.
BTW...does this mean you actually have
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 25 00:16:30 2000
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Chris Mauritz wrote:
For the cost of the LPr, you're probably better off going to someplace
like Penguin Computing and have them roll something for you that's
known to work. It will likely be a bit cheaper too
I'm reasonably sure Redhat 6.2 is ready to go out of the box.
BTW, please don't send html mail to the list.
cheers,
Chris
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 29 14:14:34 2000
Hi there,
I'm wondering if anyone has run into a distribution of linux that =
has software raid-util's
If you can afford it and this is for real work, you may want to
consider something like a Network Appliance Filer. It will be
a lot more robust and quite a bit faster than rolling your own
array. The downside is they are quite expensive. I believe the
folks at Raidzone make a "poor man's"
I haven't had very good experiences with the Adaptec cards either.
If you can take the performance hit, the Mylex ExtremeRAID cards
come in a 3-channel variety. You could then split your array
into 3 chunks of 3-4 disks each and use hardware RAID instead of
the software raidtools.
Cheers,
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 17:53:34 2000
If you can take the performance hit, the Mylex ExtremeRAID cards
come in a 3-channel variety. You could then split your array
into 3 chunks of 3-4 disks each and use hardware RAID instead of
the software raidtools.
I've not had good
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jul 10 18:43:11 2000
There are some (pre) test
versions by Linux and Alan Cox out awaiting feedback from testers, but
nothing solid or consistent yet. Be careful when using these for
serious work. Newer != Better
This isn't being planned for the next few
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 11 05:21:43 2000
Hi!
or just brilliant driver design by Leonard Zubkof, but the Mylex
cards are the performance king for hardware RAID under Linux (and
I was suprised to hear that. We just bought a Mylex AcceleRAID
250 with five 18G IBM disks, and
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 15 19:29:44 2000
Edward Schernau wrote:
Wow, an email CCed to Linus himself! *faint*
Well do you know of another way to get a patch into the kernel ??
So if Linus gets hit by a bus (or a fast moving hari krishna), how
are folks to get things into the
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 6 21:45:04 2000
Andrea Arcangeli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 3 August 2000 19:55:
On Aug 2, 7:12pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
} Subject: raid-2.2.17-A0 cleanup for LVM
This patch cleanups the new raid code so that we have a chance that LVM on
top
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 sets
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