James isn't being a jerk because he hates your or anything...
Look, yanking the drives like that can seriously damage the drives or your
motherboard. Solaris doesn't let you do it and assumes that something's gone
seriously wrong if you try it. That Linux ignores the behavior and lets you do
it
well, it's an SiS 960 board, and it appears my only option to turn off probing
of the drives is to enable RAID mode (which makes them inacessable by the OS)
what would be my next (cheapest) option, a proper SATA add-in card? I've heard
good things about the silicon image 3132 based cards, but I'
I *just* figgured out this problem, looking for a potential solution (or at the
very least some validation that i'm not crazy)
Okay, so here's the deal. I've been using this terrible horrible no-good very
bad hackup of a couple partitions spread across 3 drives as a zpool.
I got sick of having
