Re: Rackmount Sun Hardware

From: Bernd Haug (haug_at_berndhaug.net)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:14:12 +0200

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.

Yes, but doesn't the V20z *have* SCSI HW RAID?

Yours, Bernd 

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