Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-27 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:48:13 PM Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 10/25/2011 12:20 PM, John Doe wrote: Guess this new ctrl does not use the cciss module anymore. If it's like a P410i like what I have it uses the hpsa driver. HP is moving from the old cciss driver to the new hpsa driver. On C5

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-27 Thread John Doe
From: Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:48:13 PM Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 10/25/2011 12:20 PM, John Doe wrote: Guess this new ctrl does not use the cciss module anymore. If it's like a P410i like what I have it uses the hpsa driver. HP is moving from the old

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread John Doe
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com On a CentOS 6 64bit system, I added a couple prototype SAS SSDs on a HP P411 raid controller ...           Disk Name: /dev/sdc ... Just wondering how come the array is detected as /dev/sd* instead of the classical /dev/cciss/c0d*... Is the P411 a

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/25/11 2:16 AM, John Doe wrote: Just wondering how come the array is detected as /dev/sd* instead of the classical /dev/cciss/c0d*... Is the P411 a fake raid? no, its a seriously fast pci-e SAS2 hardware raid. the physical devices don't show at all. it has 1GB of writeback cache

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread John Doe
From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com On 10/25/11 2:16 AM, John Doe wrote: Just wondering how come the array is detected as /dev/sd* instead of the classical /dev/cciss/c0d*... Is the P411 a fake raid? no, its a seriously fast pci-e SAS2 hardware raid.  the physical devices don't

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/25/11 3:20 AM, John Doe wrote: Indeed, nice specs. How much does it cost...? it was bundled with a DL180G6 server, I'd have to dig out the quotes to find the controller price, but I'm seeming to remember about $500 -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 10/25/2011 12:20 PM, John Doe wrote: Guess this new ctrl does not use the cciss module anymore. If it's like a P410i like what I have it uses the hpsa driver. Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, m...@lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-25 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/25/11 4:48 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 10/25/2011 12:20 PM, John Doe wrote: Guess this new ctrl does not use the cciss module anymore. If it's like a P410i like what I have it uses the hpsa driver. yes, says as much on that lspci -v output I pasted earlier tonight in this thread.

[CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On a CentOS 6 64bit system, I added a couple prototype SAS SSDs on a HP P411 raid controller (I believe this is a rebranded LSI megaraid with HP firmware) and am trying to format them for best random IO performance with something like postgresql. so, I used the raid command tool to build a

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread Ken godee
Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. On 10/23/2011 12:07 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On a CentOS 6 64bit system, I added a couple prototype SAS SSDs on a HP P411 raid controller (I believe this is a rebranded LSI megaraid with HP firmware) and am trying to format them for best random

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 12:23 AM, Ken godee wrote: Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. with parted at least, I'm stuck with a vicious circle that won't let me align the data right? # parted /dev/sdc GNU Parted 2.1 Using /dev/sdc Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/23/2011 09:48 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/23/11 12:23 AM, Ken godee wrote: Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. with parted at least, I'm stuck with a vicious circle that won't let me align the data right? Didn't parted have issues with alignment? Here are two links with

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 4:00 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: Didn't parted have issues with alignment? Here are two links with info about alignment of SSDs which I found helpful in the past: parted handles alignment as well or better than fdisk, which that blog suggested using. anyways, I have it formatted and