On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my 15 year experience with Sun Products, I've never known one to care > about drive brand, model, or firmware. If it was standards compliant for > both physical interface, and protocol the machine would use it in my > experience. This was mainly with host attached JBOD though (which the > x4500 and x4540 are.) In RAID arrays my guess is that it wouldn't care > then either, though you'd be opening yourself up to wierd interactions > between the array and the drive firmware if you didn't use a tested > combination.
My experience with RAID arrays (mostly Sun's) has been that they're incredibly picky about the drives they talk to, firmware in particular. You pretty much have to have one of the few supported configurations for it to work. If you're lucky the array will update the firmware for you. I've also seen the intelligent controllers in some of Sun's JBOD units (the S1, and the 3000 series) fail to recognize drives that work perfectly well elsewhere. I'm slightly disappointed that there wasn't a model for 2.5 inch drives in there, though. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
