It's nice to see someone researching the docs so well before purchasing hardware. Having SCSI on your head node with IDE compute nodes shouldn't cause you any headaches. The only extra step you'll need to take is changing the default "disktable" file selected in the wizard during installation. It gets it's default from the head node itself, so you'll need to adjust that. Other than that, it won't be any problem.
Heterogenous compute nodes are also possible, but require a bit more attention, as separate images would need to be made for IDE vs SCSI, which would also mean defining the IDE and SCSI nodes in separate steps. But it doesn't sound like that's your situation anyway.
OSCAR on,
Jeremy
At 01:11 PM 6/10/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note: I've read over the OSCAR docs and am in the process of mining the mailing list archive; I haven't found a clear answer for this question, yet, so please indulge me.
I have a short-fuse cluster proposal that has been put forth where the "head" node has SCSI-attached disks (for larger storage space), but the compute nodes are proposed to have IDE disks.
Reading over the OSCAR docs, I'm not 100% postive that OSCAR can handle this. Specifically, I'm unclear about the statement:
"SIS supports heterogenous hardware and software installation (although this feature is not [yet] used by OSCAR".
Because of OSCAR's (SIS's) "image" approach to installs, I'm wondering if it is possible (without additional heart-burn) to do an OSCAR install in this type of configuration?" Would it make life easier if everything was homogenous in this regard?
Thanks for any feed-back.
Jerry
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