Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Gear
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > ... >>>Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would >>>someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the >>>simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - >> >>It's not supported on / or /boot

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >WA9ALS - John wrote: >> Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would >> someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the >> simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with R

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > If you value low downtime, then swap belongs in RAID1 or a hybrid scheme > > (such as RAID 10). > Just a newbie question. In a hybrid scheme, do I need 4 raid > partitions on 4 different disks? Which raid level comes first, in other > words: shoul

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:47:04AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:47:04 -0300 > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sarge RAID install > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? > > none .. i suppose ... > > but if /dev/hda dies .. you can still be working off /dev/hdc > along with all your data Exactly. If the drive that hosts the swap partition dies, the kernel goes completely craz

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Gear
Alexei Chetroi wrote: > ... >> in /etc/fstab >> /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. >> /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? If one swap disk dies and you've been using it for swap, your system will crash. If yo

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > in /etc/fstab > > /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. > > /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? none .. i suppose ... but if /dev/hda dies .. you can still be worki

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:19:42PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:19:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: WA9ALS - John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sarge RAID install > > On Sun,

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - > John if you're using the sar

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Paul Gear
WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - It's not supported on / or /boot - see the thread "Ran

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Laurent CARON
WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases

Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread WA9ALS - John
Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases that are over my he

Re: RAID install

2003-10-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
Great ideas, thanks all... A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RAID install

2003-10-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, I'd like to install Woody on a motherboard with SATA RAID, using the RAID 1 array as the root partition. The problem is that the neccessary driver (silraid) is in 2.4.22, but not in 2.4.18 (which as we

Re: RAID install

2003-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:09:19PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to install Woody on a motherboard with SATA RAID, using the > RAID 1 array as the root partition. The problem is that the neccessary > driver (silraid) is in 2.4.22, but not in 2.4.18 (which as we all know is t

RAID install

2003-10-18 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I'd like to install Woody on a motherboard with SATA RAID, using the RAID 1 array as the root partition. The problem is that the neccessary driver (silraid) is in 2.4.22, but not in 2.4.18 (which as we all know is the Debian install kernel). Any suggestions? This is for a server that ne

Re: ATA raid install

2003-02-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you're using the fastrack raid pci card ... it needs the promise series drivers if you're using the onboard raid ( bios-based ) controller .. dont bother ... unless you have lots of time and "hair" and/or you could get lucky with that version of the bios - be sure that the partitions

ATA raid install

2003-02-28 Thread ktb
I've been wading though the various howtos and list archives and could use some advice. I have a GA-7VAXP Gigabyte motherboard with on-board ATA raid. I've got the disks set up with MBFastrack 2+0 stripe. Should I be attempting this with stable/testing/unstable? Does anyone have a floppy set up

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Meir Kriheli: > The raid device is used via a different node, e.g: > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 Indeed! I did have a look around in /proc but couldn't find any information there, should've of course have looked there. *slaps forehead* Thank you! This seems to work just fine. Now just to figure out what m

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-12-10 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Saturday 07 December 2002 17:04, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Meir Kriheli on 2002-11-14: > > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the > > archives: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg00953.html > > Thank you! I finally had time to try the i

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-12-07 Thread Peter Karlsson
Meir Kriheli on 2002-11-14: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the archives: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200208/msg00953.html Thank you! I finally had time to try the installation again (interference from real life)... Quoting the refere

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Meir Kriheli: > I've answered similar question some time ago. See this thread in the > archives: Thanks! Somehow that didn't show up when I searched for info earlier. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.so

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-14 Thread Meir Kriheli
On Friday 08 November 2002 15:33, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise > FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use > for mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine. > > When I try to boot the inst

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Peter Karlsson [Fri, Nov 08 2002, 11:17:45PM]: > > Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. > > I've learned to loathe Highpoint controllers from other machines I've > been working with, but perhaps support has been improved since (that > was in 2000). Huch? hpt

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Karlsson
Eduard Bloch: > Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. I've learned to loathe Highpoint controllers from other machines I've been working with, but perhaps support has been improved since (that was in 2000). > Thanks for reminding me, I have just updated the Woody Preload

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Peter Karlsson [Fri, Nov 08 2002, 08:46:23PM]: > > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. > > I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with > other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ Not true, there are lots of boards with Highpoint controllers. T

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Karlsson
nate: Thanks for your reply. > these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I noticed that. The problem is that it is hard to get motherboards with other built-in RAID controllers... :-/ > it looks to only support raid0, Too bad, the only reason I use RAID is to do mirroring. Anyway, I

Re: Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread nate
Peter Karlsson said: > Hi! > > I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise > FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use for > mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine. these are really bad cards to use with under Linux. I have seen

Promise RAID install problems

2002-11-08 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I am trying to install Debian 3.0 on my new PC which has a Promise FastTrak133 RAID controller to which I have attached two disks to use for mirroring. Accessing these disks from MS-DOS works fine. When I try to boot the install cd (using the bf24 flavour), the installer claims that it does n