Daniel Ouellet wrote:
stan wrote:
That's actually not a given IFIRK Sun says the RAID on the 2100's
is "Windows only".
Interesting! I didn't read that. Must have skip my reading then
somehow. The choice are in the BIOS to enable it. I didn't buy two
drives as it was for testing only, so I can't say if it would work or
not for sure, or if it would be supported in OpenBSD or not. No clue.
If there is feedback as to it should be supported, not only in
Windows, and some are interested to know if it does or not, I could
buy an other drive and try it. Not that I will need two drives for
what this baby will be use in.
So, what's the controller in x2100 ? In v65x it was a u320 aic79xx,
Adaptec only provides Windows drivers for it, and is not so willing
to share with the microcode needed to support built-in RAID.
Someone also mentioned that enabling these kind of RAIDs is of
little use, since they put almost the same strain on the CPU, making
it run controller's microcode.
Why Sun picks that kinda hardware for it's servers, is another kinda
question.... But the controller manufacturers play evil here...
Thanks,
Pawel.
