I see 4.0 is coming out, and yet, no hardware raid support, no fixes for
raidframe,
and still no SMP support, for sparc64 on Ultrasparc II machines.
I'm using only 1 processor out of 4, and 4 hard drives out of 30 because I
can't hardware raid
my enterprise fiberchannel array, I can't hardware raid the majority of the
drives in my
E450, and because raidframe is so old and buggy, I can't raid5 any of it,
and am left
mirroring my 2 boot drives together, and 2 data drives together.
This is a $125,000 machine 5 years ago, and I treat it no better than some
crappy i686 box
because security is my primary issue. If I went with another OS, I could
get a lot of the
functionality I want, but what good is it, if some 12 y/o kid in pakistan
can hack my box.
I just can't see why SMP and hardware raid aren't supported on sparc64/II.
Thanks at least for a very secure OS. I've been online now for 6 months on
this E450 with
no hacks.
