Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-18 Thread Marco Kammerer
Michelle Konzack wrote > Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > > > >Hello, > > > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > > ??? Hardware Ra

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-18 Thread Marco Kammerer
Michelle Konzack wrote > Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > > > >Hello, > > > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > > ??? Hardware Ra

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time [SOLVED]

2003-03-18 Thread Christoph Löffler
Hi, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. For that use a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time [SOLVED]

2003-03-18 Thread Christoph Löffler
Hi, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. For that

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 02:09 2003-03-01 +0100 hat Mark Schouten geschrieben: > >Hi, > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: >Had this problem once. There are two options: > >1: You select an option in the kernelconfiguration, which says that you >system should use offboard IDE-devices a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello , Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > >Hello, > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. F

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello , Am 23:32 2003-02-28 +0100 hat Christoph Loeffler geschrieben: > >Hello, > >i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a >Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. ??? Hardware Raid ??? This Controler is not a real Hardware RAID. F

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-03-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 02:09 2003-03-01 +0100 hat Mark Schouten geschrieben: > >Hi, > >On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: >Had this problem once. There are two options: > >1: You select an option in the kernelconfiguration, which says that you >system should use offboard IDE-devices a

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Mark Schouten
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: > i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) > > It was not possible to

Re: IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Mark Schouten
Hi, On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:32:50PM +0100, Christoph Loeffler wrote: > i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a > Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. > The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) > > It was not possible to

IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Christoph Loeffler
Hello, i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) It was not possible to install debian directly to the disk, because the disks where not found. At the point, when

IDE Hardware RAID-1 at boot time

2003-02-28 Thread Christoph Loeffler
Hello, i want to install debian to server with two IDE 80GB disks on a Hardware RAID. The Controller is a Promise Fasttrak tx 2000. The two disks are configured as RAID-1 (mirroring) It was not possible to install debian directly to the disk, because the disks where not found. At the point, when

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-02-01 Thread Jason Lim
> > There are some motherboards which have software RAID in the BIOS. This > allows them to deal with that problem at boot time, and then the kernel does > software RAID with the same mapping once it's loaded. Mmm... those boards use the Highpoint chip... thats not real good at anything ;-) Perf

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Lim
> > There are some motherboards which have software RAID in the BIOS. This > allows them to deal with that problem at boot time, and then the kernel does > software RAID with the same mapping once it's loaded. Mmm... those boards use the Highpoint chip... thats not real good at anything ;-) Per

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:36, Jason Lim wrote: > > > drive available. This requires that you do not boot with a failed disk > > > in your system.' > > > > Which won't necessarily work with the most recent LILO because it relies > > on > > > the BIOS detecting the disk as bad and skipping it (which may

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jason Lim
> > drive available. This requires that you do not boot with a failed disk > > in your system.' > > Which won't necessarily work with the most recent LILO because it relies on > the BIOS detecting the disk as bad and skipping it (which may not happen). > I think that may have been the problem I

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 10:22, Jose Alberto Guzman wrote: > >Who recommends that you don't use software RAID on the root file system? > > > >Not me (lilo maintainer and user of this), not the lilo author, not the > >software RAID kernel maintainer. > > Sorry, I'm not up to date on the newest features

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-31 Thread Jose Alberto Guzman
loader don't allow booting >from the second disk then you just have to physically swap disks (which is >much less effort than swapping disks and restoring from backup). > >> You can't be 24x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's >>always some down time involved with it, or at least a higher risk of >>downtime than with hardware raid. >> > >Actually LinuxBIOS could solve this issue... > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
#x27;t allow booting from the second disk then you just have to physically swap disks (which is much less effort than swapping disks and restoring from backup). > You can't be 24x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's > always some down time involved with i

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread jose
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jason Lim wrote: > > Depending on your syslog configuration, it whines that you should > change the > > faulty drive with a good one until you do. > > Thats want I want then... ;-) [..and from 'closest to debian'] >>Unfortunately, if this happens at 3am in the morning, no

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread Jason Lim
one? so that lilo boots... ?? > Yeap... if you plug the faulty drive into hdc (you know what i mean) and the working into hda, then it boots. > > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have happened? > > Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the problem, an

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-29 Thread jose
x7-high-availability with software raid only, there's always some down time involved with it, or at least a higher risk of downtime than with hardware raid. > If the bad drive is put in by itself, after a while the disk is > failed and it tries to boot by floppy. Does Lilo

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
> > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have > > happened? Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the > > problem, and only stop briefly, then try the second disk > > automatically and transparently? > > I believe hardware RAID would

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-28 Thread Jason Lim
Sincerely, - Original Message - From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Re: Software VS Hardware Raid > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:01, Ja

Re: Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:01, Jason Lim wrote: > Case 1) > I replaced one of the disks with an old disk with bad blocks and strange [...] > My question: if this was hardware RAID 1... would this have happened? > Would the hardware RAID controller recognise the problem, and only stop >

Software VS Hardware Raid

2002-01-27 Thread Jason Lim
2 disks are not on the same cable btw. The BIOS had the usual settings allowing me to set the boot order (Floppy first, CDrom next, hard disk 0, then network (no, i can't put hard disk 1, I wish i could), and finally had "Boot other devices" set to yes. My question: if this was hard

RE: hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Jesse Molina
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:20 PM > To: Debian-Isp > Subject: hardware raid > > > I'm looking for a good hardware raid 1 (mirroring) solution > for Debian. Will > the promise c

RE: hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
The 3ware cards work really well. www.3ware.com and check out the Escalade 6200/6400? or 7xxx series if you have 64-bit PCI slots. - jsw -Original Message- From: Andrew Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:20 PM To: Debian-Isp Subject: hardware raid I&#

hardware raid

2001-11-05 Thread Andrew Kaplan
I'm looking for a good hardware raid 1 (mirroring) solution for Debian. Will the promise cards work with Debian or is there a better solution thanks. Andrew P. Kaplan Network Administrator CyberShore, Inc. http://www.cshore.com "I couldn't give him advice in business and he c

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I must have missed this the first time around, but we just went with hardware raid solution as well. We installed the ICP-Vortex card, we paid about $590 or so for it from www.thelinuxstore.com with 32MB of RAM. It takes standard PC100 SDRAM. The card comes with linux drivers, and linux software

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread Nick Jennings
I know its been some time since this post, im primarily responding for the archives, maybe someone will find the info usefulll.. i was looking for the exact same thing, an inexpensive hardware RAID controller. (something in the hundreds of dollars as apposed to the thousands). What i wfound was

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread John Gonzalez/netMDC admin
I must have missed this the first time around, but we just went with hardware raid solution as well. We installed the ICP-Vortex card, we paid about $590 or so for it from www.thelinuxstore.com with 32MB of RAM. It takes standard PC100 SDRAM. The card comes with linux drivers, and linux software

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-09-04 Thread Nick Jennings
I know its been some time since this post, im primarily responding for the archives, maybe someone will find the info usefulll.. i was looking for the exact same thing, an inexpensive hardware RAID controller. (something in the hundreds of dollars as apposed to the thousands). What i wfound was

Re: Hardware RAID

2000-04-08 Thread Kevin Blackham
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 08:15:13AM -0600, elyograg wrote: > Does anyone have any recommendations for a hardware RAID controller with a > good combination of price and Linux support, and at least one supplier who > carries it? http://www.tdl.com/~netex - We got our DAC1164 from the

Hardware RAID

2000-04-08 Thread elyograg
I've been looking through kernel readme files, and trying to find a hardware RAID solution that will run under Debian. It seems that all of the RAID hardware that is supported in the 2.2 kernel is either very very expensive, or impossible to find. The controllers that are affordable, a