Re: hardware raid1 onboard

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Date: 24 Dec 2003 01:50:24 -0800

Bastiaan Spandaw <newsgroupaddy15@becobaf.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.12.24.00.19.24.813165@becobaf.com>...
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:10:26 +0000, Paul S. Brown wrote:
>
> >
> > It can't. What's your problem with SW RAID?
> >
>
> Well .. I dont have any experience with solaris way of doing software
> raid, but.
>
> - is it possible to have SW root RAID?
>
> These points I have form experience with linux SW RAID
>
> - what if the bootsector gets corrupted on the primary disk?
>
> - Once a member of a SW RAID-1 mirror had errors on partition 4, but
> because the server crashed multiple times partitions 1 and 2 got corrupted
> on the other disk.. if wasnt able to swap disk 1 or two..
>
> HW RAID is just easier to use..
> I can call unskilled "remote-hands" in
> the datacenter to swap a HW RAID setup, but not allways when its a SW RAID
> server..
>
> Is solaris way of doing SW RAID easier/more reliable?
> More redundant? (bootsector thing)

In the SPARC architecture it is possible, and very often used, to have
several boot disks. A sun server can boot from different disks on
different SCSI channels. This is utilised in the large servers , the
D240 boot-box for 3800-6800 servers has two disks on two SCSI channels
that are SW-mirrored and provide redundant boot capability for this
class of servers. The standard PC BIOS can only Boot from the first disk
in the system, this is not the case for Sparc-servers.

   //LArs

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