Re: RAID Question

2021-01-13 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So the resolution to this, barring some intermittent disk strangeness, is that I had a SATA cable with crap connex. No surprise. Silver stays shiny about 3 hours here. Dhu On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:19:40 -0700 Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > --

Re: RAID Question

2021-01-13 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:06:57 -0500 Nick Holland wrote: > On 1/12/21 9:41 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > > > > Howdy all? I'm wondering if more than one RAID1 array is supported in 6.7++ > > > > I'm having problems that could be bios limitat

Re: RAID Question

2021-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 1/12/21 9:41 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: Howdy all? I'm wondering if more than one RAID1 array is supported in 6.7++ I'm having problems that could be bios limitations, OS, or a bad SATA (Pwr?) cable. Currently I'm going with the latter and rebuilding the RAID (again) but was just

Re: Raid offline when newfs

2018-04-30 Thread Mimoza
Le 30/04/2018 à 04:14, Nick Holland a écrit : Did you disable the RAID functionality of this card? If not, the BIOS probably tried to "rebuild" one disk onto the other, causing you all kinds of pain. softraid has to do everything for this to work properly. Nick. Hi, I will check that but

Re: Raid offline when newfs

2018-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/29/18 20:23, Mimoza wrote: > > > Le 30/04/2018 à 00:01, Mimoza a écrit : >> Hi, >> I have a problem to create a second RAID 1 on my  router an Soekris >> 6501-70 (http://www.soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html) > […] >> I can rebuild the offline device but he still offline … >> >>

Re: Raid offline when newfs

2018-04-29 Thread Mimoza
Le 30/04/2018 à 00:01, Mimoza a écrit : Hi, I have a problem to create a second RAID 1 on my  router an Soekris 6501-70 (http://www.soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html) […] I can rebuild the offline device but he still offline … So, there any option or configuration to explain/solve that ?

Re: RAID 1 degraded since 6.3 updated

2018-04-26 Thread Mimoza
Le 26/04/2018 à 14:13, Stuart Henderson a écrit : I don't know if is important but the faulty HDD have some bad sector. Oh, if you have bad sectors showing up then you should definitely replace it and not use it. You are right … i'll looking for a new HDD.

Re: RAID 1 degraded since 6.3 updated

2018-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-04-26, MImoza wrote: > > Hi Stuart, > Thanks for your help. > > Well i downloaded the 6.2 kernel here : > https://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/i386/ > > renamed it as bsd_62, copy in / and boot with the following commande : > > boot bsd_62 > > And nothing change … > > softraid0 at root

Re: RAID 1 degraded since 6.3 updated

2018-04-26 Thread MImoza
Le 26/04/2018 à 09:40, Stuart Henderson a écrit : On 2018-04-25, MImoza wrote: I have swapped out hardware (cable, HDD, port), re-created the RAID from scratch, but at each time the Thosiba HDD is offline at reboot. I don't think it's hardware incompatibility because with 6.2 everything was O

Re: RAID 1 degraded since 6.3 updated

2018-04-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-04-25, MImoza wrote: > I have swapped out hardware (cable, HDD, port), re-created the RAID from > scratch, but at each time the Thosiba HDD is offline at reboot. > I don't think it's hardware incompatibility because with 6.2 everything > was Ok. > I think it's software, because the rebui

Re: RAID controller

2018-03-31 Thread Jonathan Matthew
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 11:38:52AM -0300, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Hi folks. > > Does OBSD 6.2 support DELL H840 and DELL H740p raid controllers ? No, but 6.3 will.

Re: raid and crypto file system

2017-09-22 Thread Maksym Sheremet
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 22:41:22 -0300 "x9p" wrote: > > On 2017-09-20, Friedrich Locke wrote: > >> My question is: > >> > >> I would like to use hardware raid disks with disk encryption. Is that > >> possible ? Since the disk raid appears transparently to the OS. > >> > >> Is that possible ? > >

Re: raid and crypto file system

2017-09-22 Thread x9p
> On 2017-09-20, Friedrich Locke wrote: >> My question is: >> >> I would like to use hardware raid disks with disk encryption. Is that >> possible ? Since the disk raid appears transparently to the OS. >> >> Is that possible ? > > Yes. > > Not with 6.1, right? installboot: invalid boot record sig

Re: raid and crypto file system

2017-09-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017-09-20, Friedrich Locke wrote: > My question is: > > I would like to use hardware raid disks with disk encryption. Is that > possible ? Since the disk raid appears transparently to the OS. > > Is that possible ? Yes.

Re: raid

2014-03-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-03-17, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Good afternoon folks. > > I wonder if OBSD supports DELL RAID controller like H710/H310/etc. > I am using OBSD 5.4. > > []s gustavo. > > SAS5/PERC5/SAS6/PERC6/H200/H310/H700/H800/H710P: yes. S100/S300 "winraid": no.

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-28 Thread Adam Thompson
On 13-10-27 03:49 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: This is definitelly a thread which I followed with great interest. In the light of Stefan's diff I have three questions. 1. Does that make http://blog.cochard.me/2012/03/openbsd-51-installation-on-sofraid4.html accurate? That would mean that I can

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-28 Thread Janne Johansson
2013/10/27 Predrag Punosevac > > 3. Are there any strong opinions on CARP/pfsync vs RAID 1/altroot for > firewall redundancy for small office use. > > > I really don't see how those two options would be pitted against each other. Most of the time I don't see the firewall rules as super secrets,

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Stefan Sperling wrote: >On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 01:41:46PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: >> I recently followed the most up-to-date guidance I could find on booting >> OpenBSD off softraid(4), and *everything* I found showed that I needed >> the kernel on a separate slice so boot(8) could find it.

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-27 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 01:41:46PM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: > I recently followed the most up-to-date guidance I could find on booting > OpenBSD off softraid(4), and *everything* I found showed that I needed > the kernel on a separate slice so boot(8) could find it. > > For that matter, boot(

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-10-26, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> (And, if it does work this way with RAID 1, when did that start happening?) > > In 2011 as per log of /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.c. IIRC, this is just for a few arch at the moment, possibly just i386/amd64?

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I know OpenBSD borrows useful concepts from Linux from time to > time, but not keeping the manpages up to date isn't a "feature" I'd like > to see brought over to the BSD world. One of the fundamentals of OpenBSD > has historically been correct documentation. It's true. The previously posted

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Adam Thompson
On 13-10-26 09:43 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> Does it also function that way with RAID 1 softraid volumes? > Yes. That's great news! (I re-did a system with root-on-raid1 moments ago and lo - it "just works".) But... Even greater news would be if anyone other than a couple of developers knew

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Daniel Aurelio Galeazzo
2013/10/26 Stefan Sperling : > In 2011 as per log of /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.c. > > revision 1.56 > date: 2011/01/23 14:57:08; author: jsing; state: Exp; lines: +258 -34; > Add support to installboot(8) for installing biosboot(8)

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:15:36AM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote: > On 13-10-25 01:29 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > >With crypto softraid: installboot copies /boot into a reserved > >area at the beginning of the softraid partition. In this case, the > >/boot file isn't used during booting. Then it copies b

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-26 Thread Adam Thompson
On 13-10-25 01:29 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: With crypto softraid: installboot copies /boot into a reserved area at the beginning of the softraid partition. In this case, the /boot file isn't used during booting. Then it copies biosboot into place, with the block array filled in with the locations

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-25 Thread Daniel Aurelio Galeazzo
2013/10/25 Ted Unangst : > With crypto softraid: > installboot copies /boot into a reserved area at the beginning of the > softraid partition. In this case, the /boot file isn't used during > booting. Then it copies biosboot into place, with the block array > filled in with the locations of the cop

Re: RAID Crypt dual booting

2013-10-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 19:40, Daniel Aurelio Galeazzo wrote: > Hi all, > > After ~1 year of OpenBSD without need your help (FAQ and man > are very complete) I've a question. I need to dual boot my HD > for Linux Distro (I need Android SDK and I red can't use it into BSD) > but I installed full cr

Re: Raid configuration question

2011-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/07/11 18:02, Zeb Packard wrote: > hmmkay, so both disklabels have an sd0b, softraid is pointed to > sd3b for swap, but dmesg still prints 'swap on sd0b dump on sd0b' > I'm assuming this is because sd0b is striped? no, it is because sd0b is swap BY DEFINITION. Do not use the 'a' partition of

Re: Raid configuration question

2011-07-07 Thread Zeb Packard
hmmkay, so both disklabels have an sd0b, softraid is pointed to sd3b for swap, but dmesg still prints 'swap on sd0b dump on sd0b' I'm assuming this is because sd0b is striped? I figure it's worth a shot on my test system, if it's quicker, I'm not opposed to the little bit of configuration up front

Re: Raid configuration question

2011-07-07 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011, Zeb Packard wrote: > So, i've setup a file server with softraid rather than the older > raidframe, however on the new system I tried setting my sd*b > partitions to a raid 0 configuration so the swap space runs a > little faster. After getting the swap space setup, though dmes

Re: Raid configuration help.

2011-06-28 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 06/28/11 21:53, Zeb Packard wrote: >> Overwriting file in /etc could cause all sorts of problems, rc >> scripts corrupted could leave you in single user mode for example. >> >> >> Regards >> >> Nigel Taylor >> > > Thanks a bunch for the tips and encouragement. I was using the > tutorial at

Re: Raid configuration help.

2011-06-28 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-28 22.53, Zeb Packard wrote: >> Overwriting file in /etc could cause all sorts of problems, rc scripts >> corrupted could leave you in single user mode for example. > Thanks a bunch for the tips and encouragement. > I was using the tutorial at http://www.argon18.com/raid_openbsd.html > T

Re: Raid configuration help.

2011-06-28 Thread Zeb Packard
> Overwriting file in /etc could cause all sorts of problems, rc scripts > corrupted could leave you in single user mode for example. > > > Regards > > Nigel Taylor > Thanks a bunch for the tips and encouragement. I was using the tutorial at http://www.argon18.com/raid_openbsd.html This tutorial w

Re: Raid configuration help.

2011-06-28 Thread Nigel Taylor
On 06/28/11 01:36, Zeb Packard wrote: > Hello all, I'm new so if I do anything rude please let me know so I can > adjust. > > I set up an openbsd file server using sftp, with a raid 1 > configuration and failover with Carp. My plan was to use rsync to sync > up the file sharing directories and I

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-19 21.50, Eric Furman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:04 +, "Kevin Chadwick" >> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 >> Tyler Morgan wrote: >>> I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD >>> and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:04 +, "Kevin Chadwick" wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 > Tyler Morgan wrote: > > > I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD > > and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the power > > supply and the mother

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:41:40 -0700 Tyler Morgan wrote: > I decided, for my fairly basic router needs, to not use RAID in OpenBSD > and instead rely on CARP and backups. I am more worried about the power > supply and the motherboard going wonky before the SSD. CARP is obviously better but being

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:03 PM, na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) wrote: > Tomas Bodzar wrote: > >> You will not be happy with reliability of SSD >> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal >> e.html > > After lots and lots of useless blather, the first i

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Tyler Morgan
On 6/17/2011 10:03 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Tomas Bodzar wrote: You will not be happy with reliability of SSD http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal e.html After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit shows up in a comment

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Tomas Bodzar wrote: > You will not be happy with reliability of SSD > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scal > e.html After lots and lots of useless blather, the first interesting tidbit shows up in a comment more than halfway down the page: | Over at blek

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-06-17, Donald Reichert wrote: > I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of > NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. > > What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I > have two SSDs in each of the machines, my initial pl

Re: RAID options for OpenBSD

2011-06-16 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Donald Reichert wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm preparing a pair of new servers, each equipped with a bunch of NICs in order to replace some Cisco gear doing BGP and friends. > > What puzzles me right now is how to configure the stuff HD-wise. I have two SSDs in each of

Re: RAID support

2010-10-09 Thread Jean-François SIMON
Hi, Can we add, remove or change the chunks hard drives, rebuild, without re-constructing the RAID ? Regards 2010/10/7 Jean-Francois > Hi, > > Doing tests, I could not always do properly the kick off of a rebuild. > What is exactly the procedure for doing a rebuild with bioctl -R ? > > In part

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, Doing tests, I could not always do properly the kick off of a rebuild. What is exactly the procedure for doing a rebuild with bioctl -R ? In particular I don't understand, when you have say a build with chunks sd0a and sd1a, then remove one chunk, plug a new one, if it doe'nt appear as sd1

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* Jean-Francois [2010-10-07 19:44]: > Why raidctl and bioctl ? What differences, why both are here ? raidframe and thus raidctl will eventually go. softraid is the future. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mai

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Thursday 07 October 2010 13:22:01, g.du...@otasc.org a icrit : > > Hello, > > > > Is soft RAID currently a work in progress, I remember some important > > features > > were still added release after release recently. Will it be the case for > > forthcoming 4.8 ? > > > > Regards > > > > Jean-Fran

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread g . duale
> Hello, > > Is soft RAID currently a work in progress, I remember some important > features > were still added release after release recently. Will it be the case for > forthcoming 4.8 ? > > Regards > > Jean-Frangois > > Hi, is already working I guess : http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 18 May 2009 05:04:24 -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: >Hard words, Theo. Do you think anyone you talked to >could actually understand what you were sayin'? > Dumb words, Dhu. Do you think anyone who reads this will think you could understand what you were meaning if you did not rea

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:40:44 -0600 (MDT) > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > > If any of the people we talked to at 3ware weren't such > > LYING BAGS OF HYPOCRITICAL SHIT we'd support their hardware > > Hard words, Theo. Do you think anyone you talked to > could a

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-18 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Fri, 15 May 2009 20:40:44 -0600 (MDT) Theo de Raadt wrote: > >On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > >> I'm currently trying to verify something, because while I know makefiles > >> really > >> well, the ones for the FreeBSD kernel are too indirect for me, so I can't > >> yet > >> ver

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
>On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I'm currently trying to verify something, because while I know makefiles >> really >> well, the ones for the FreeBSD kernel are too indirect for me, so I can't yet >> verify about the twa driver. >> >Doesn't make any difference, 3Ware was abandoned by

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm currently trying to verify something, because while I know makefiles > really > well, the ones for the FreeBSD kernel are too indirect for me, so I can't yet > verify about the twa driver. > Doesn't make any difference, 3Ware was abandoned by the proj

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread Chuck Robey
L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > >> OK ... but you could tone it down just a touch ... >> > You might want to monitor the list a while, .. OpenBSD is build by > developers, for developers. Us'n Users get to enjoy the fruits of their > labors and contribute when we c

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > OK ... but you could tone it down just a touch ... > You might want to monitor the list a while, .. OpenBSD is build by developers, for developers. Us'n Users get to enjoy the fruits of their labors and contribute when we can. The reply was entirely appro

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread Chuck Robey
System Administrator wrote: > > Unlike FreeBSD, this project (OpenBSD) does not support or incorporate > drivers based around binary-blobs. Furthermore, with rare exceptions, > the project does not reverse-engineer but insists on having complete > documentation to do proper development. Back in

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-15 Thread System Administrator
On 15 May 2009 at 17:11, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm trying to see if there's any way I can get my Raid controller, which is a > AMCC (3Ware) 9650-4, to work under OpenBSD. The man page for the twe driver > says it works for several different 3Ware controllers, but it seems to omit > the > 9000 con

Re: Raid + OpenBSD Problem

2009-04-21 Thread Alexis de BRUYN
Hi Chris, Maybe the Intel Q35 Chipset is not the (only) component which troubles your system, it could be for example the disks (which are not fully compatible with your motherboard). A best pratice is to consult the Hardware Compatibility List of your motherboard (if available) before assembling

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-20 Thread Matthew Mulrooney
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not the case let me know. I booted into the card's BIOS and confirmed that the drive was marked as hot spare. It seems to have worked, and this is on 4.1 as well. No Gaby, if you made

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-19 Thread Gaby Vanhegan
On 18 Jun 2008, at 16:51, Marco Peereboom wrote: > As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not > the > case let me know. I booted into the card's BIOS and confirmed that the drive was marked as hot spare. It seems to have worked, and this is on 4.1 as well. Thanks!

Re: RAID/Intel Installation Problem

2008-06-19 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Kenneth R Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is the device you expect to provide disks, the only obvious > candidate I see, it is not currently supported in the RAMDISK_CD > kernel if at all. >From a quick glance at pciide(4), I suppose it should work

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-18 Thread Matthew Mulrooney
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote: As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not the case let me know. Cool :). I don't have a way of testing it at the moment. When I am able I will let you know. Did the fix go into current, or did it make 4.3? [I've taken

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-18 Thread Bill Meigs
LSI tech support is very helpful. 800-633-4545 in the usofa. Or: http://www.lsi.com/support/support_form.html Gaby Vanhegan wrote: We had a drive failure on a RAID5 (LSI MegaRaid SATA 150-4) volume in our server (OpenBSD 4.1/x86). The hot spare kicked in and the volume rebuilt fine after a suc

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not the case let me know. On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:29:23PM -0600, Matthew Mulrooney wrote: > Gaby, please be aware of this thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120349790515559 > > AFAIK the LSI/bioctl hot spare issue st

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-18 Thread Matthew Mulrooney
Gaby, please be aware of this thread: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120349790515559 AFAIK the LSI/bioctl hot spare issue still exists. If you have created your hot spare using bioctl -H, it *will* look like a hot spare, but it probably will *not* act like one. You might want to give

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-18 Thread Marco Peereboom
It is ok within margin. All 250GB drives should be 250GB "enough". On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:13:54PM -0400, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: > We had a drive failure on a RAID5 (LSI MegaRaid SATA 150-4) volume in our > server (OpenBSD 4.1/x86). The hot spare kicked in and the volume rebuilt > fine after

Re: RAID/Intel Installation Problem

2008-06-18 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:13:47PM -0400, Paul Barbeau wrote: > > Please send the dmesg from the boot disk/cd. > > Here is the dmesg from the boot. There are no wd* or sd* devices listed here so there are no disks available to the system. > "Intel 6321ESB RAID" rev 0x09 at pci0 dev 31 function

Re: RAID/Intel Installation Problem

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Barbeau
> Please send the dmesg from the boot disk/cd. Here is the dmesg from the boot. OpenBSD 4.3 (RAMDISK_CD) #645: Wed Mar 12 11:31:03 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD RTC BIOS diagnostic error 3 cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-

Re: RAID/Intel Installation Problem

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Shockley
Paul Barbeau wrote: However when I try to install it says "no disks found" when I try "fdisk-u hd0" it does not work as well. Any ideas or am I out of luck to get openBSD into this configuration? Please send the dmesg from the boot disk/cd. Also, you may want to try a snapshot, as support f

Re: RAID 0+1

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Poffenberger
Lars NoodC)n wrote: I'm looking to set up a test unit this summer to try RAID 1+0 or 3+0. The goal is to be able to stream data quickly but tolerate loss of at least one disk at a time. It looks like there are three options supporting at least RAID level 0 and 1, can/should any of these be stack

Re: RAID 0+1

2008-04-27 Thread Sevan / Venture37
> It looks like one disk (or CF) is needed for a base OpenBSD system, and > the other 4+ for RAID. Is that the best way to ensure unattended booting? I can only speak of raidframe as its the only one I've used. If you mean for attaching the array automatically then as mentioned in the manpage mak

Re: RAID 1 in production environment

2008-03-28 Thread David Newman
Martin Toft wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:49:01AM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Hi all, I need a RAID-1 (mirroring) for production environment. ?Should I use RAIDFrame or softraid? The reliability is the main request feature. AFAIK, not all features of softraid are finished yet. Ho

Re: RAID 1 in production environment

2008-03-28 Thread Martin Toft
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:49:01AM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a RAID-1 (mirroring) for production environment. > > ?Should I use RAIDFrame or softraid? > > The reliability is the main request feature. AFAIK, not all features of softraid are finished yet. However, it

Re: RAID easy disk replacement for datacenter employees

2008-02-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
mfi(4) ami(4) On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:26:26PM -0800, Jon wrote: > I'm about to send an OpenBSD server to a datacenter for a client and we > need RAID in case a hard disk fails. I need answers from people who have > real world hands-on experience and can tell me what to use so that, if a > dr

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-21 Thread Siju George
On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Siju George" writes: > On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So this is still not the output I'd expect what does 'disklabel wd0' > > and 'disklabel wd1' say? Are wd0d and wd1d of type FS_RAID ?? > > > > nope :-( > So that

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Oster
"Siju George" writes: > On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Kernelized RAIDframe activated > > > Searching for raid components... > > > dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > > > dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 > > > root on wd0a > > > rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 raw

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Siju George
On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Kernelized RAIDframe activated > Searching for raid components... > dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 > root on wd0a > rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 > RAIDFRAME: protectedSectors is 64. > r

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Oster
"Siju George" writes: > On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Siju George" writes: > > > In my dmesg at one point it says > > > > > > == > > > Kernelized RAIDframe activated > > > dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > > > dkcsum: wd1 match

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-08 Thread Siju George
On 3/8/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Siju George" writes: > In my dmesg at one point it says > > == > Kernelized RAIDframe activated > dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 > dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 > root on wd0a > ==

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Oster
"Siju George" writes: > On 3/6/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Siju George" writes: > > > > It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than > > you really wanted to know :) > > > > Later... > > > > Greg, > > Seeing that you work on RAIDFRAME let me dare to ask y

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Oster
"Siju George" writes: > On 3/6/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Siju George" writes: > > > > It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than > > you really wanted to know :) > > > > Later... > > > > Greg, > > Seeing that you work on RAIDFRAME let me dare to ask y

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-07 Thread Siju George
On 3/6/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Siju George" writes: It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than you really wanted to know :) Later... Greg, Seeing that you work on RAIDFRAME let me dare to ask you one more thing :-) In my dmesg at one point it say

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-05 Thread Siju George
On 3/6/07, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Siju George" writes: > Is the Raid not working properly? It's working just fine... just probably telling you a bit more than you really wanted to know :) Thanks a million Greg :-) I really appreciate your Detailed reply :-)) Kind Regards

Re: raid dmesg output and raidctl -sv output shows differrent status for raidframe mirror on OpenBSD 4.0 amd64

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Oster
"Siju George" writes: > Hi, > > The dmesg Output Shows > > Clean: Yes > > for both Raid Components as shown below > > > > raid0: Component /dev/wd0d being configured at row: 0 col: 0 > Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Column

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Tautvydas
On 1/7/07, Tautvydas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Marc, > An /etc/fstab on one of my machines... > > # devicemount point type optionsbackup fsck pass > /dev/wd0a / ffsrw 1 1 > /dev/wd0d /varffsrw,nodev,nosuid

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Tautvydas
Hi, Marc, An /etc/fstab on one of my machines... # devicemount point type optionsbackup fsck pass /dev/wd0a / ffsrw 1 1 /dev/wd0d /varffsrw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 /dev/wd0h /var/wwwffsrw,nodev,nosui

Re: raid and separate partitions

2007-01-06 Thread Marco S Hyman
> So, question is - how is it possible? It looks like something I'm > missing. I don't know how, but it looks like all www date is written Order is important. It looks like you mounted /var/www before /var in which case /var/www is hidden. /etc/fstab must be in the order that you want filesyst

Re: RAID, SCSI, and sparc64

2006-11-17 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:33:48AM -0800, David Newman wrote: > OpenBSD 4.0 on UltraSparc II, two 18G SCSI drives > > I am trying to set up software RAID disk mirroring. There are many fine > howtos out there, including: > > http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0203/msg00803.html > http://w

Re: Raid controller compatibility.

2006-09-08 Thread Bill Marquette
On 9/8/06, Kaven Gagnon (ml) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to know if these three SCSI controllers are compatible with OpenBSD? (No mention about these cards on the manifacturer Web site and OpenBSD compatibility list.) All of these cards are listed on the i386 hardware page. htt

Re: Raid controller compatibility.

2006-09-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 02:11:12AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > > MegaRAID SCSI 320-0 (520-0 CH) > > See ami(4) - in fact, they come highly recommended, though I believe > mfi(4) is the new ami(4) - see > http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060519044541, and note > the 'dearly

Re: Raid controller compatibility.

2006-09-08 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:51:48PM -0400, Kaven Gagnon (ml) wrote: > Hi, I would like to know if these three SCSI controllers are compatible > with OpenBSD? (No mention about these cards on the manifacturer Web site > and OpenBSD compatibility list.) > > Adaptec SCSI RAID 2000S > Adaptec SCSI RAI

Re: RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:26:24PM +0200, Simon Vallet wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just in the process of upgrading to 3.9 from a root-on-RAID 3.8 > -stable install. I fetched the sources from the CD, built a > RAID-enabled kernel, and rebooted : the kernel hangs after issuing > "Kernelized RAIDframe act

Re: RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-04 Thread Simon Vallet
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:09:03 +0200 Mitja Mu>enih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I even tried to replicate the problem locally on supposedly same > hardware (HP Compaq dc5100 + 2x SATA HDDs) but here I couldn't get it > to hang on raidframe. I did manage to consistently hang it by > enabling the front

Re: RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-04 Thread Mitja Muženič
As you referenced my post - I never solved that. It was just too painful to seriously debug it over a rented KVM from half the world away and requiring me to open a trouble ticket for every reboot. I even tried to replicate the problem locally on supposedly same hardware (HP Compaq dc5100 + 2x SATA

Re: Raid 1 and 2 Disks: kernel panic with "init: not found" when reboot into broken mirror

2006-05-21 Thread ip
On 5/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >... >Kernelized RAIDFrame activated >dkcsum wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 >dkcsum wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 >root on wd1a >rootdev=0x10 rrootdev=0x320 rawdev=0x312 >warning: /dev/console does not exist >ini

Re: Raid 1 and 2 Disks: kernel panic with "init: not found" when reboot into broken mirror

2006-05-20 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:39:57AM +0200, ip wrote: > On 5/14/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >While wd1a does have a kernel, it does not have a proper root filesystem > >- for instance, no /dev directory, or more specifically no /dev/console. > > > >Fix this, and also have

Re: Raid 1 and 2 Disks: kernel panic with "init: not found" when reboot into broken mirror

2006-05-16 Thread ip
On 5/14/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While wd1a does have a kernel, it does not have a proper root filesystem - for instance, no /dev directory, or more specifically no /dev/console. Fix this, and also have a look at daily(8) which documents the altroot mechanism, which is q

Re: Raid 1 and 2 Disks: kernel panic with "init: not found" when reboot into broken mirror

2006-05-14 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:38:40PM +0200, ip wrote: > Hello misc, > > I spent two days to read man and how-tos, but today I don't succeed > again to make raid 1 to work. > I want to install openbsd 3.9 on two ide disks (wd0,wd1) of 10 gb with > raidframe raid 1. > Following the main steps that I h

Re: RAID label problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Xavier Mertens
Thanks Otto! This fixed the problem... Xavier -- There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't. On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Xavier Mertens wrote: > > > 16 partitions: > > # sizeoffset fst

Re: RAID label problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Greg Oster
Xavier Mertens writes: > Well, I already tried to create only a small partition: [snip] > > p > device: /dev/rraid0c > type: RAID > disk: raid > label: fictitious > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 128 > tracks/cylinder: 8 > sectors/cylinder: 1024 > cylinders: 156417 > total sectors: 160171392 >

Re: RAID label problem?

2006-03-22 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Xavier Mertens wrote: > 16 partitions: > # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 4358414031416925149 unused 0 0 # Cyl > 1383715*-1809342* > c: 160171392 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 > -156417* >

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