Re: [BULK] RE: R910/Linux CPU Heat Problems?

2010-12-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
in the way of his air, one of the three central fan pairs should have got triggered to high speed too, and the second fan of the same PSU too. So the heat source (if ever, may be a failing sensor only) seems for me to be a local defect in one of the two PSUs. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenke

Re: [BULK] RE: R910/Linux CPU Heat Problems?

2010-12-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
s one inside the power supplies, with little effect on CPU temperatueres. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 --

Re: Perc 5i PE 1950 limitations

2010-10-18 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
ks with PERC5/i. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 - Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftli

Re: 2.5" vs 3.5" drive performance?

2010-10-12 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
5"? > > Well if the platters are smaller the heads have less distance to move, > so seeking from the start of the disk to the end would be quicker... > >> The opposite is fact. >> >>> [1] >>> http://www.latestpcnews.com/western-digital-launches-new-backplane-

Re: 2.5" vs 3.5" drive performance?

2010-10-11 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
ted out, an SSD would be even better in this respect. How do you see an effort of 2.5" against 3.5"? The opposite is fact. > [1] > http://www.latestpcnews.com/western-digital-launches-new-backplane-compatible-wdvelociraptor-hard-drive/ Only advertising, sorry. Viele Gruess

Re: 2.5" vs 3.5" drive performance?

2010-10-09 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
5" side. More iops per physical server volume is the only benefit of 2.5". Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 -

Re: 2.5" vs 3.5" drive performance?

2010-10-08 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
rives, the "used surface" starts at the outer corner and does not reach to the inner corner. So 3.5" drives have in any case the bits sliding faster under the heads at a given rpm. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeits

Re: Blew away my partition table

2010-06-29 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-06-29 19:44, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, J. Epperson wrote: >>> Arrived home very tired and in a lapse of judgement tried to configure a >>> new USB backup drive on my PERC3 based home ser

Re: Blew away my partition table

2010-06-29 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
n table change. If you do not have a backup of the master boot record (LILO would have one), you can use the df output to estimate the right cylinder numbers. If you need trial and error to find the boundaries, "tune2fs -l /dev/sdaX" is a non-destructive test. Viele Gruesse

Re: linux.dell.com rsync targets

2010-04-02 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:58:15PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: >> would it be possible to offer http://linux.dell.com/files/ via rsync? > > It's possible; we need to do some pruning there before I'd open it up > thou

Re: linux.dell.com rsync targets

2010-04-01 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
mine have the same size (and maybe timestamp) > (poorman's checksum)? If not, get it. Good that (or if) you do it, but a crazy way I won't go. I will only mirror it if I get access via rsync. > On 04/01/2010 02:58 PM, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: >> Hi, >> >>

linux.dell.com rsync targets

2010-04-01 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, would it be possible to offer http://linux.dell.com/files/ via rsync? Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551

Re: Monitoring non-Dell drives with OMSA?

2010-03-31 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Robin Bowes wrote: > On 01/04/10 00:59, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: >>> If you don't mention that the failed drive is a "one-year item" from Dell, >>> it is covered by your 3-year warranty. > > Er, I wouldn't think so - al

Re: Monitoring non-Dell drives with OMSA?

2010-03-31 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Robin Bowes wrote: >> We have 32 x PE1950, plus 34 x R410, and have another 42 R410 on order. >> All servers have (the balance of) a 3-year warranty. >> >> Each server has 4 x 146GB 2.5"

Re: Monitoring non-Dell drives with OMSA?

2010-03-31 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
e failed drive is a "one-year item" from Dell, it is covered by your 3-year warranty. Maybe too if you buy Seagate drives at second source. But my question is: why didn't you choose originally the 5-year warranty from Dell? You can get it, even if not choosable in the web interface.

Re: R710 w/ Mixed SSD + SAS Drives

2010-03-24 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
URL? Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 - Gesellschaft fuer wissenschaftliche Daten

RE: External array showing as /dev/sda

2010-03-21 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
v/sda. But if the external array is down then > we've got issues anyway. :-) The real matter is the sequence of drivers within the initrd file. I can't tell about RH, but with SUSE you have /etc/sysconfig/kernel with a line like INITRD_MODULES="amd74xx megaraid_mbox process

Re: RAID-5 and database servers

2010-03-09 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
t disks. Raid1 can have a double throughput advantage during read - just using disk1 AND disk2 - if the controller supports it. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +4

Re: Dell git trees now available by git://

2010-02-11 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
it:// today. > > I hope you enjoy this new way to participate. ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/dell/ http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/dell/ rsync://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/dell/ will be a mirror of both repo/ and git/. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org)

Re: Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers

2010-02-10 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
y formed a proper signal against his marketing collegues, and I guess he has the power to place it right. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail:

Re: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35)

2010-02-10 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
loss could waste the buffer cache. The battery backuped controller cache would keep the data and write back after the next power-on (if it happens within the battery lifetime). Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.o

Re: support.dell.com out to lunch?

2010-01-23 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
sting to see speed and reliability if > the OS changed to, say, Linux. Seconded very much. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhard Moenkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoe...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49

RE: PE 2650 - which memory?

2009-12-09 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Howard, Chris wrote: > You guys are a lifesaver. > > This says I have two 512MB DIMMs in bank1_A and bank1_B > and speed is 266 Mhz. As I remember it is DDR-1 reg ECC. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de, e...@kki.org) -- Eberhar

Re: Hidden DRAC commands

2009-11-16 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
gt; > I still haven't figured out how to get a proper console though... Many thanks for this, really many. Too much vendors do not see the efforts they can gain thru open-sourcing their software, by binding the brains of their users. Viele Gruesse Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoe...@gwdg.de,

Re: Network stability problems on R710 servers and BCM5709

2009-10-31 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Rainer Traut wrote: >> Eberhard Moenkeberg schrieb: >>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Steve Thompson wrote: >>>> I have just taken delivery of a T710 w/BCM5709's, and can confirm that the

Re: Network stability problems on R710 servers and BCM5709

2009-10-31 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Rainer Traut wrote: > Eberhard Moenkeberg schrieb: >> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Steve Thompson wrote: >>> I have just taken delivery of a T710 w/BCM5709's, and can confirm that the >>> disable_msi=1 trick does *not* resolve this problem; I ha

Re: How To: Replace PERC6 In The r710 With An Areca ARC-1680

2009-10-28 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
the Slony backlog. > > Good luck and let me know if you have any questions (or where to > find some slick SFF-8087 cables with a 90deg angle connector) > > You can see a dmesg(8) for the r710 w/ areca for NetBSD/amd64 > -current from last month at: > > http://www.nycb

Re: Network stability problems on R710 servers and BCM5709

2009-10-24 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
hile idle, 5 minutes after a cold start. Installing the netxtreme > driver *does* fix the issue. Not very clever, guys. No Problems here with SUSE SLES10. Works just out of the box, no tricks necessary. BTW: My guess is since long (i.e. almost ever, about 15 years) that SUSE has the be