Re: My first question on Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect. Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them. Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves. Bijan I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86. And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware. I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to hot-swap IDE hard disks. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My first question on Debian
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to hot-swap IDE hard disks. I know of no Solaris X86 drivers for any of the hotswap IDE hardware. For that matter, does anyone make HS IDE gear anymore? I'm not sure there's much of a market for it - if you care about HS, you're generally going to want a more reliable storage subsystem. -j -- Jamie Lawrence[EMAIL PROTECTED] Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My first question on Debian
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:57 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc, simply remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a single reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect. Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them. Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves. Bijan I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86. And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware. I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to hot-swap IDE hard disks. Bijan hotswaping IDEs require hardware level ability as well as kernel level abilities. X86 lacks all core hardware hotswapability...periferal hardware is fine but swaping things like CPUs, Memory, harddrives, etc is impossable on X86. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My first question on Debian
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Jeremy Petzold wrote: hotswaping IDEs require hardware level ability as well as kernel level abilities. X86 lacks all core hardware hotswapability...periferal hardware is fine but swaping things like CPUs, Memory, harddrives, etc is impossable on X86. Awhile back, I was looking into IDE RAID systems, and I remember a RAID5 hardware system that claimed to support hotswapping RAID drives. Unfortunately, the price was a tad high, and I never bought it. From the technical aspects of IDE, I see no reason why hardware cannot RAID IDE drives, power down any faulty drives, power up any replacement drives and mirror the data, all well telling the BIOS/OS that there is only one drive. (Now, if that's a good idea, OTOH...) ~ Jesse Meyer -- ...crying Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!... ~ HPL icq : 34583382 | === ascii ribbon campaign === msn : [EMAIL PROTECTED]| () - against html mail yim : tsunad| /\ - against proprietary attachments pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
