SUMMARY: Can fibre based disks be mounted when booting from an installation CD?

From: Garsha, Adam (adam.garsha_at_marquette.edu)
Date: 10/23/05

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    > If booting from a CD to recover the system, will the fibre based disks

    > be visible?

    > Second question, what if you have fibre based "tape drives" (e.g. a
    > VirtualTapeLibrary), can you see the fibre based tape drives if you
    > boot from the installation CD?

    I received affirmation for EMA and MDR/NSR based storage. That is good
    enough for me to deduct that it will also be true for EVA and VTL based
    storage. I just wanted to be sure that the CD OS image had the
    capability to talk via HBA's, sounds like it does.

    This makes sense because I understand that you can install Tru64
    clusters without using a local seed disk--though I have never done it.

    I won't be able to actually try this for a couple weeks.

    Adam Garsha

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