Ah, more terminology below...
Daniel Rock wrote:
Richard Elling - PAE schrieb:
Frank Cusack wrote:
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. Sun sells a hardware product which
their software does not support. The worst part is it is advertised as
working. <http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/specs.xml>
What is your definition of "work"?
NVidia MCPs work with SATA drives in IDE emulation mode under Solaris
(thus I am able to compose this message on an NForce 410)
Quoted from the web page above:
Internal disk
Up to two hot-pluggable 3.5 inch SATA or SATA II,
250 GB or 500 GB 7200 RPM disks supported.
"hot-pluggable" - you will find out only in a footnote (not on this
specs page) that this is only supported with MS Windows.
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/os.jsp
>
Still no mention of hot-pluggable not supported by Solaris.
Maybe here
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/datasheet.pdf
... nope.
Perhaps in the FAQ
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/faq.jsp
... hmm, no again.
Hopefully in the product notes
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/819-6594-11/
... no again.
I still haven't found the document which states that hot-plugging of
disks is not supported by Solaris.
The operational definition of "hot pluggable" is:
The ability to add or remove a system component while the
system remains powered up, and without inducing any hardware
errors.
This does not imply anything about whether the component is
automatically integrated into or detached from some higher
level environment for use, nor that such an environment is
necessarily suspended during the operation (although it may
be.) For example, a hot pluggable processor/memory card may
be added to a system without the need to power the chassis
down and then back up. However, that does not mean it will
be automatically utilized by the operating system using that
chassis.
So one can normally assume that advertized hot-plugging of a Sun
hardware is also supported on a Sun operating system - better not.
All SATA drives are hot-pluggable.
There is no software component pertaining to hot-pluggable, so there
is indeed an error on the page describing hot-pluggable as being a
Windows-only feature.
Perhaps you are looking for "hot-swappable" for which the operational
definition is:
The ability of a component to be added or removed from a system
without interrupting the normal operation of the system.
For Solaris, a device may be hot-swapped if there is nothing open on
the device. Here lies the entrance of a rathole...
-- richard
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