[CentOS] ssd quandry

Tue Oct 25 10:20:10 UTC 2011
John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>

From: John R Pierce <pierce at 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 show at all.  it has 1GB of writeback cache thats backed 
> by flash with a supercap, instead of the traditional battery that dies 
> in 3 years.

Indeed, nice specs.
How much does it cost...?

> I didn't have to install any special drivers to use it, C6 just saw it 
> as-is, /dev/sda

Guess this new ctrl does not use the cciss module anymore.

Thx,
JD