> On January 22, 2007 11:19:40 AM -0800 "David J. > Orman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm very confused now. Do the x2200m2s support "hot > plug" of drives or > > not? I can't believe it's that confusing/difficult. > They do or they > > don't. > > Running Solaris, they do not.
Wow. What was/is Sun thinking here? Glad I asked the question happenstance, this makes the X2* series a total waste to purchase. > > I don't care if I can just yank a drive in a > running system out > > and have no problems, but I *do* need to be able to > swap a failed disk in > > a mirror without downtime. > > Then the x2100/x2200 is not for you in a standard > configuration. You might > be able to find a PCI-E sata card and use that > instead of the onboard SATA. > I'm hoping to find such a card. > I'm not going to pay for hardware that can't handle very basic things such as mirrored boot drives on the vendor-provided OS. That's insane. Guess it's time to investigate Supermicro and Tyan solutions, startup-essentials program or not - that makes no hardware sense. Who do I gripe to concerning this (we're starting to stray from discussion pertinent to this list...)? Would I gripe to my sales rep? Thanks for the clarity, David This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
