Hi again... On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:23:35 +0000 (GMT), Gordon Henderson wrote > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Enrique Garcia Briones wrote: > > > Thanks Gordon, > > > > I will then read and re-read the RAID-6 configuration, and something I miss > > to explain, may be is not to be discussed here, is that when I installed the > > Linux with the A1000 pulled out everything went out well but, when I > > reconnect the A1000 the system didn't start up correctly... so my unique way > > was to install the Linux in the first hard drive of the A1000 and it seems > > to be working fine, Is that alternative functional? > > I'd be tempted to remove the A1000 and install on the 2 internal > drives, then once that's happy, plug the A1000 back in again. It > might be that the OBP (Open Boot Prom) code is favouring the > external device to boot off, but it's been a very long time since > I've dabbled in that. You'd need to push Stop+A at boot time then > enter some runes at the OK prompt to check/reconfigure the boot device. > I already did that, and modify the boot_device to the first of the internal hard drives, but, when the Linux tries to came up, it shows an error... that I cannot remember now. :S > The A1000 devices I've used had an on-board RAID controller and some > software that ran under Solaris to configure it, so that might be > somethign to look into too - to make sure it's doing what you expect > it to be doing. > The raid controler that you are mentioning is possible to configure it under Solaris and still have it working with debian?? I was unable to find any good enough documentation regarding the configuration of raid-6, under debian linux, or similar, I feel like I am shipwrecked, can anyone aimed me to the correct direction? Enrique > Gordon > > > > > thanks > > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------- > > From: Gordon Henderson <gordon@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: Enrique Garcia Briones <egarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:05:12 +0000 (GMT) > > Subject: Re: Configuring combination of RAID-1 RAID-5 > > > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Enrique Garcia Briones wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Let me introduce myself. > > > > > > I'm newbie in linux and in RAID over linux, I have configured a RAID-0 in a > > > NetBSD 2.0 BOX. so, now let me explain what I'm trying to do, > > > > > > Antecedents/Equipment: > > > > > > I have a Sparc 420 with 4 processors and 4 Gb in RAM, two SCSI SEAGATE > > > internal hard disk with an array of 12 hard disks (Storedge 1000). > > > > > > What we want to have: > > > > > > We installed Debian Linux (I think it is 3.1 with kernel 2.4), and we want > > > to have the following configuration: > > > > > > 1 System Harddisk > > > 1 RAID-1 Mirror Hard Drive > > > 12 Hard drives in RAID-5, 10 working and 2 as spare disks. > > > > > > I have read the setting-up for the raid-5 and 1, but I would like to ask > > you > > > if I can set-up a combined RAID configuration as mentioned above, since all > > > the examples I found upto now just talk of one RAD configuration, besides > > > this, I would like to ask you that if the configuration I want to have is > > > STRONG enough for the quantity of disk in the box, or if there must be any > > > other considerations to have. > > > > Wow. an A1000. Ancient, but probably still OK. I'm not sure if there are > > any management utilities for them that'll run under Linux - I've only ever > > seen 2 of these and they seem to be able to run RAID themselves - might be > > faster, but the ones I had were slow anyway - maybe you can re-configure > > them to just look like 12 disks and let Linux do the RAID on them... > > > > Heres my suggestion: > > > > Install a 2.6 kernel. > > > > Partition both internal disks identically, then then combine all the > > partitions with RAID-1. Boot off RAID-1, if you can - I'm not up on the > > SLILO/whatever boot loaders for Sparc though. > > > > Configure the 12 external disks using RAID-6. You'll get one disk more > > worth of storage that way and still be able to sustain a 2 disk failure. > > > > Gordon > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- > > > > > > -- > > UAdeC > > En el Bien fincamos el Saber > > Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- > raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More > majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- UAdeC En el Bien fincamos el Saber Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
