Re: Rackmount Sun Hardware

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack_at_fcusack.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:54:54 -0700

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:40:51 -0500 Dan Foster <usenet@evilphb.org> wrote:
> In article <11h9cqo7fpjvm6a@news.supernews.com>, BN <BN@BN.COMO> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why not SW RAID? Unless you're talking about RAID 5, SW RAID isn't
>>> that bad...
>>
>> Software raid is too unreliable. You have to use a flooopy to boot up
>> if the SECONDARY (non-boot)drive in a IDE or SCSI chain (mirrored
>> setup) goes bad.
>
> Not with Solaris 10 on the V20Z.

Not with any Solaris on any hardware.

It's only if the primary drive fails, and then only in certain ways,
that you may need special procedures to boot. But you never need
a floppy.

-frank

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