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    How to check raid?

    Hello,
    I've ordered dedicated host and it's look like they cheating me.
    I want to check some hardware details, but not really know how.

    From specification page:
    2 x 80Gb 7200rpm SATA Hard Disks RAID-1

    But this hosting work slowly that my VPS under heavy loading (~150k hit/day).
    From hdparm i've got this:

    [root@localhost httpd]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda2

    /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01:
    Timing cached reads: 4204 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2102.39 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads: 80 MB in 3.02 seconds = 26.51 MB/sec

    Well, let's look at lvm:
    [root@localhost httpd]# pvdisplay
    --- Physical volume ---
    PV Name /dev/sda2
    VG Name VolGroup00
    PV Size 73.47 GB / not usable 2.09 MB
    Allocatable yes (but full)
    PE Size (KByte) 32768
    Total PE 2351
    Free PE 0
    Allocated PE 2351
    PV UUID lfF2vS-D77D-Sb7D-Cs1b-noJy-bso1-JMf2ke


    This should mean that they use hardware RAID-1 which is represented as /dev/sda2?
    But i can't find anything about raid on /dev/sda from dmesg...

    [root@localhost httpd]# dmesg | grep -i raid
    md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.


    This is look strange... Need advice.

  2. #2
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    A hardware RAID could conceivably be completely transparent from the shell. Ask your host provider how you can tell.
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  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by bitserve View Post
    A hardware RAID could conceivably be completely transparent from the shell. Ask your host provider how you can tell.
    Even kernel boot message will not show it?
    Ok...
    But i think they cheating me, because my home notebook work faster that this super-duper "Dual Core with RAID-1" dedicated server. I've done small tests with gzip/ungzip. My loaded with application notebook (with opened browser, music player, ets.) works faster, than this unloaded dedicated server.

  4. #4
    here is how it looks in dmesg

    Code:
    csi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1068, FwRev=000a3100h, Ports=1, MaxQ=286, IRQ=169
      Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3808110AS       Rev: J   
      Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
      Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3808110AS       Rev: J   
      Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
      Vendor: Dell      Model: VIRTUAL DISK      Rev: 1028
      Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
    SCSI device sda: 154296320 512-byte hdwr sectors (79000 MB)
    sda: Write Protect is off
    sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08
    SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
    SCSI device sda: 154296320 512-byte hdwr sectors (79000 MB)
    sda: Write Protect is off
    sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 08
    SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
     sda: sda1 sda2
    sd 0:1:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

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    Put phpsysinfo on your server it may give you some clues...

    http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

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    hwinfo:

    Code:
    24: PCI 208.0: 0100 SCSI storage controller
      [Created at pci.301]
      UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1000_54
      Unique ID: oxTw.YyU0P+giqs5
      Parent ID: VCu0.YXdx3wZz9v9
      SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:08.0
      SysFS BusID: 0000:02:08.0
      Hardware Class: storage
      Model: "Dell SAS 5/iR Adapter RAID Controller"
      Vendor: pci 0x1000 "LSI Logic / Symbios Logic"
      Device: pci 0x0054 "SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS"
      SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
      SubDevice: pci 0x1f09 "SAS 5/iR Adapter RAID Controller"
      Revision: 0x01
      Driver: "mptsas"
      Driver Modules: "mptsas"
      I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xecff (rw,disabled)
      Memory Range: 0xfe9fc000-0xfe9fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
      Memory Range: 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9effff (rw,non-prefetchable)
      Memory Range: 0xfea00000-0xfeafffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled)
      IRQ: 169 (2778601 events)
      Module Alias: "pci:v00001000d00000054sv00001028sd00001F09bc01sc00i00"
      Driver Info #0:
        Driver Status: mptsas is active
        Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe mptsas"
      Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
      Attached to: #22 (PCI bridge)

  7. #7
    I've found problem. Write Cache on SAS 5/iR was disabled.
    Here is manual - http://www.tomasek.cz/software/SAS5iRperf/index.html

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    Only enable the write cache if they have a battery on the card, most do not have the battery by default. If there is a power failure or your server locks up and you do a remote reboot your going to risk loosing data / corrupting data. Also hdparm numbers of under 30MB/s for sata drives is quite sad, write cache will not help this. Normal sata drives should yield at least 50 to 65MB/s. Its quite possible the server was overloaded from the vps while running that test.
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    lshw will definitely tell you what the raid card is and where on the mother board it is, and lots of other nice info too...

    cd /tmp
    mkdir lshw
    cd lshw
    wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/l...l4.rf.i386.rpm
    rpm -i lshw*
    cd ..
    rm -rf lshw
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