Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B906337DD for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:08:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76177-01 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:08:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from cronos.madness.at (madness.at [217.196.146.217]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3517C633DD5 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:08:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from mastermind.kaltenbrunner.cc ([83.215.233.60]) by cronos.madness.at with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NhjdF-00054J-QS; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:08:00 +0100 Message-ID: <4B7BEA25.9030906@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:07:49 +0100 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jd@commandprompt.com CC: Matthew Wakeling , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC H700/H800 References: <1265909175.22849.148.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> In-Reply-To: <1265909175.22849.148.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.843 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=-0.844, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201002/263 X-Sequence-Number: 37684 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:39 +0000, Matthew Wakeling wrote: >> Just a heads up - apparently the more recent Dell RAID controllers will no >> longer recognise hard discs that weren't sold through Dell. >> >> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/dell_perc_11th_gen_qualified_hdds_only/ >> >> As one of the comments points out, that kind of makes them no longer SATA >> or SAS compatible, and they shouldn't be allowed to use those acronyms any >> more. > > That's interesting. I know that IBM at least on some of their models > have done the same. Glad I use HP :) all of the main vendors do that - IBM does and so does HP (unless you count the toy boxes without a real raid controller). The later actually goes so far and blacklists some of their own hdd firmware levels in more recent controller versions which can cause quite some "surprising" results during maintenance operations. I find it quite strange that people seem to be surprised by Dell now starting with that as well (I atually find it really surprising they have not done that before). Stefan