Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Tim Moore
I've been running an S2885 since Feb 1. After flashing to 2.02b and replacing a faulty SATA cable, zero problems. System runs constantly as a NAS load generator client except for shutdowns needed to test different disks or memory configs. I'll be getting 3 more next month, racked using: http:

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ricky Beam wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote: > >> Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885) > > > >personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their > >opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their > >mainboards agai

Re: quick help needed - smaller disk in raid5?

2005-02-19 Thread Tim Moore
'fdisk -lu' shows in sectors of 512 bytes, useful in matching partition sizes for slightly different disks. You will have to resize to the smallest (30401 cylinders). Hebenstreit Michael wrote: Hello everybody, I've been using a Raid5 with 3 disks of exactly the same size, a little bit more than

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885) > >personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their >opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their >mainboards again. You're doing yurself a huge disservice based on very lit

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hi, > Mobo was a Tyan Thunder K8W. (S2885) personally I'm very disappointed about Tyan, well I only know their opteron mainboards, but thats already sufficient to never buy their mainboards again. Server B (failover): S2880, as soon as a cable is plugged in into one of the onboard broadcom NICs,

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quick help needed - smaller disk in raid5?

2005-02-19 Thread Hebenstreit Michael
Hello everybody, I've been using a Raid5 with 3 disks of exactly the same size, a little bit more than 250 GB (reported as 251) Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread berk walker
[I usually do not spend bandwidth in quoting big stuff, but your's might be worth it] Properly chastised. One CAN do net raid, 4,000 [where's my pound key?] is still a lot to me, [don't forget my name IS berk :)] One doesn't always get what one pays for - but one usually pays for what one gets

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, berk walker wrote: > Do you want a glass or some cheese? Not really... I just thought I'd pass on my experiences and thank those who gave me support recently. By posting my configurations and thoughts and issues I've encountered during the way, I'm essentially opening myself

Re: Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread berk walker
Do you want a glass or some cheese? Actually, I am thinking that your main problem is a generic [almost] BIOS issue, as no one in "right mind" would expect your configuration. Might I suggest a somewhat more expensive, yet safer work-around? Split your drives between more boxes and gigabite lin

Tyan, RAID-6, and other recent hassles... (long, a bit OT)

2005-02-19 Thread Gordon Henderson
This is a bit OT and long, but it might help someone in the future, you never know! I've been struggling recently to get a box together with some supposedly nice hardware and it's turned out to be a bit of a nightmare.. The good news is that it's now sorted and working well enough to go into prod