Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D24CB5DD27 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 20:23:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24626-02-3 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 23:23:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.catalyst.net.nz (bertrand.catalyst.net.nz [202.78.240.40]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320C6B5DCC4 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 20:22:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.catalyst.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7496C320C4; Fri, 27 May 2011 11:22:55 +1200 (NZST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at catalyst.net.nz Received: from mail.catalyst.net.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bertrand.catalyst.net.nz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YgIvUjit66on; Fri, 27 May 2011 11:22:54 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [IPv6:2404:130:0:1000:222:15ff:fe5c:2471] (unknown [IPv6:2404:130:0:1000:222:15ff:fe5c:2471]) (Authenticated sender: mark.kirkwood) by mail.catalyst.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D881F32078; Fri, 27 May 2011 11:22:54 +1200 (NZST) Message-ID: <4DDEE0CF.5040800@catalyst.net.nz> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:22:55 +1200 From: Mark Kirkwood User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Smith CC: =?UTF-8?B?R3J6ZWdvcnogSmHFm2tpZXdpY3o=?= , postgres performance list Subject: Re: serveRAID M5014 SAS References: <4DDD81BB.4080801@catalyst.net.nz> <4DDD85C7.6030109@catalyst.net.nz> <4DDE0E77.6070804@catalyst.net.nz> <4DDEDFFF.1060304@2ndquadrant.com> In-Reply-To: <4DDEDFFF.1060304@2ndquadrant.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=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201105/390 X-Sequence-Number: 43899 On 27/05/11 11:19, Greg Smith wrote: > Mark Kirkwood wrote: >> You can interrogate the config of the card and the raid 10 array >> using the megaraid cli package - you need to read the (frankly >> terrible) manual to discover which switches to use to determine >> battery and cache status etc. If you email me privately I'll get you >> a link to the relevant docs! > > That's assuming the MegaCli utility will work against IBM's version of > the card. They use an LSI chipset for the RAID parts, but I don't > know if the card is so similar that it will talk using that utility or > not. It does seem to. Cheers Mark