On mar, oct 12, 1999 at 11:44:23 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Though, how does the PC handle things booting up if the drive on
> controller 0, ID 0 has gone bad? I expect this is another case where
I don't think it will boot, unless you have a boot floppy as a backup that
will boot on the second hard drive if the first one fails, and the boot
process falls back to floppy.
Again, it can be made to work, but it'd be a hack.
> If we go with Red Hat, the DAC960's should be supported starting with 6.0
> (5.2 if we get a custom boot image, though we wouldn't likely install that
> at this point.)
That's correct.
> There's nothing (that I know of) stopping anyone from buying Intel
> Astor/AstorII/Cabrillo-C server chassis and making use of their hot-swap
> bays without hardware RAID. The Astor chassis are surprising cheap too.
True, but a real disk shelf with dual power supply, diagnostic LEDs, and
some SCSI logic to handle drives that go bad and possibly send crap over the
SCSI bus, is still better :-)
Marc
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