Frank Cusack wrote:
On January 20, 2007 1:07:27 PM -0800 "David J. Orman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On that note, I've recently read it might be the case that the 1u sun
servers do not have hot-swappable disk drives... is this really true?
Only for the x2100 (and x2100m2). It's not that the hardware isn't
hot-swappable, it's that Solaris doesn't support it. If you run
Windows you will get hot swap.
-frank
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I believe this also applies to the X2200 M2 as well. Essentially, all
the low-end x64 servers using SATA have Nvidia chipsets which
theoretically support Hot-swap of SATA; as noted, the Windows drivers
do support this feature, while the Solaris 10 drivers don't (and, I
don't know if there are plans to add this feature or not).
Personally, I've always been a bit nervous of using chipset-based RAID
and expecting Hot-swap to actually, particularly with SATA. I've been
bitten on various different (non-Sun) hardware trying this, and it has
made me gun-shy of thinking I can actually pull a SATA drive while its
mirror is still mounted...
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