>
>
> > BTW: someone knows how so-called host-independent RAID controllers
> > work ? (especially the ones Raidtec offers) Will it be possible to
> > bypass the controller and access a disk itself ?
>
> Well I thought most so called FC-AL raid controllers just were a bunch
> of disks. This is tha case for Sun A5000/A5200, somewhat the case for
> Sun SSA and the transtech disk-racks.
It is true for A5x00, there are just additional SCSI Enclosure Devices which
one uses to control temperatures, fans, passwords, configuration and stuff
like that, but is not even near to somewhat the case for SSA, where
everything goes through the master CPU, which does all the caching and many
more things. SSA is better explained as a bunch of disks behind another CPU.
Cheers,
Jakub
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