Re: Rackmount Sun Hardware

From: Dan Foster (usenet_at_evilphb.org)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:40:51 -0500

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.

Tested, and didn't need a floppy to boot off the opposite mirror half
when either half had "gone bad".

-Dan

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