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Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Just a small addition:
> What is the going price of a hot-spare, hot-plug, resize-supporting,
> RAID6 capable SCSI RAID controller?
> I doubt that you'll be able to find one for 400$; eBay included.
An LSI MegaRAID 300-8X (8 po
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 21:06 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Gilboa Davara, from the post of Tue, 06 Jun:
> >
> > I've switched controllers, mixed drive types (SCSI 68/80, IDE/SATA),
> > disconnected IDE drivers by mistake (IDE doe not support hot-plug),
> > killed the kernel, killed the md dri
Quoting Gilboa Davara, from the post of Tue, 06 Jun:
>
> I've switched controllers, mixed drive types (SCSI 68/80, IDE/SATA),
> disconnected IDE drivers by mistake (IDE doe not support hot-plug),
> killed the kernel, killed the md drivers... I've managed to screw it
> all,
you DO realize that thi
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 19:56 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 08:00 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > Quoth Shachar Shemesh:
> >
> > > Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > > > 2. in case of drive failure, recovery process is a pain
> > > >
> > > Well, doing "sfdisk -l /dev/sda > partiti
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 08:00 +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> Quoth Shachar Shemesh:
>
> > Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > > 2. in case of drive failure, recovery process is a pain
> > >
> > Well, doing "sfdisk -l /dev/sda > partitions" in advance, and then doing
> > "sfdisk /dev/sdb < partitions" isn
Ira Abramov wrote:
After having delved a little into your message, I have to say I stand by
my previous statement.
> umm, the ServeRAID drivers are on IBM's site, binary only. If you search
> for drivers from the main page you get this:
>
> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?ln
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:20:17 +0300, Marc A. Volovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> 1. LSI Logic - both SCSI controllers and SATA/SCSI Raid
> controllers
> 2. Mylex - RAID controllers
> 3. Cough, sputter, wash mouth with carbolic - HP ICCS RAID
> 4. ICP Vor
Quoth Shachar Shemesh:
> Hmm. Ok. I cannot argue with *you* being unfond of it. To me it is a
> simple matter of budget trade offs.
Speaking of budget tradeoffs:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8820211099&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.
Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sun, 04 Jun:
> > Take note, amigos! If you buy an IBM server with an Adaptec ServerRAID
> > onboard, you may find that even after initializing the mirror, your
> > Linux will STILL see two LUNs! aic7xxx drivers are very stable with it,
> > but they lack the
Quoting Marc A. Volovic, from the post of Mon, 05 Jun:
> >
> > So today I'm trying again. wish me luck If you want, although I'm an
> > Atheist and I know it doesn't exist, and sometimes, that notion is a
> > bummer...
>
> Note that this is exactly the situation I was descring in labour-intensive
Quoth Ira Abramov:
[snip]
> resizing MD partitions, which I did, and it reset again on X and no grub
> on reboot, at which point I was too tired and left it.
>
> So today I'm trying again. wish me luck If you want, although I'm an
> Atheist and I know it doesn't exist, and sometimes, that notion
Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> Quoth Lionel Elie Mamane:
>
> 1. Am very unfond of doing raid ops on main processor.
>
Hmm. Ok. I cannot argue with *you* being unfond of it. To me it is a
simple matter of budget trade offs.
> 2. in case of drive failure, recovery process is a pain
>
Well, doing "
Quoting Ariel Biener, from the post of Sun, 04 Jun:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 21:37, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > On a separate issue, the machine crashed when I let Anaconda boot into
> > the Graphic install mode, so I had to do a text install. But that blew
> > up when I booted into the OS because it de
Quoth Shachar Shemesh:
> Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > 2. in case of drive failure, recovery process is a pain
> >
> Well, doing "sfdisk -l /dev/sda > partitions" in advance, and then doing
> "sfdisk /dev/sdb < partitions" isn't all that hard, really.
Which - especially in the case of complex rai
Quoth Lionel Elie Mamane:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> > No - do NOT use MD for anything except kiddie-games.
> Care to elaborate? I actually *prefer* to use the Linux Software RAID
1. Am very unfond of doing raid ops on main processor.
2. in case of drive
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:19:12PM +0300, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> Quoth Ira Abramov:
>> I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM
>> x346
>> Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm?
> No - do NOT use MD for anything except kiddie-games.
Care
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:37:38PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM
> x346 server.
> Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm? I
> think in this case I just might as well. I may lose the ability to
> HotSwap i
Marc A. Volovic wrote:
On a separate issue, the machine crashed when I let Anaconda boot into
Boot single, switch to initlevel 3, rest.
What? Fedora sux...?
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On Sunday 04 June 2006 21:37, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On a separate issue, the machine crashed when I let Anaconda boot into
> the Graphic install mode, so I had to do a text install. But that blew
> up when I booted into the OS because it defaulted to Runlevel 5 (the
> text mode installation does not
Ira Abramov wrote:
> Take note, amigos! If you buy an IBM server with an Adaptec ServerRAID
> onboard, you may find that even after initializing the mirror, your
> Linux will STILL see two LUNs! aic7xxx drivers are very stable with it,
> but they lack the ability to work with the RAID. to do that
Quoth Ira Abramov:
> I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM x346
Serves you right. Use LSI Logic.
> Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm? I
No - do NOT use MD for anything except kiddie-games.
If you're using SATA - buy LSI SATA 150-6 o
Ira Abramov wrote:
> I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM x346
> server.
See if
http://israblog.nana.co.il/blogread.asp?blog=35850&blogcode=1367360 is
any help to you.
Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd.
Have you backed up today'
I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM x346
server. For the last 3 years, Adaptec have been changing their approach
to Free Software. The company that released the first
enterprise-certified SCSI drivers and rewrote the SCSI layer in the
kernel has started making binary
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