So, is the raid controller typically contained in the array, or in the fibre
channel card?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Nemchenko [mailto:drew at usfamily.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 8:57 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] OT (sorta): Sun disk arrays
> 
> 
> The Sun Fiver channel disk array is platform independent that 
> was the entire
> idea of creating Fibre Channel. I know this because I work 
> for a Company
> that makes Fibre channel switches and I use all kinds of mass storage
> equiptment to preform performance testing.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com>
> To: TCLUG <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:24 PM
> Subject: [TCLUG] OT (sorta): Sun disk arrays
> 
> 
> > No one I ask really seems to know the answer to this 
> question.  I need to
> > purchase another Sun A5100 Fiber Channel disk array to add 
> some capacity
> to
> > a Sun system that we may not have much longer.  I NEED the 
> space, but
> since
> > we may not be using it for much longer, I need to find a 
> way to repurpose
> it
> > before I purchase it.  Unfortunately, a half terabyte 
> company MP3 server
> > would not be looked very highly upon by the penny pinchers.
> >
> > So, does anyone know if I can use the array with a Windows 
> 2000 database
> > server?  Does the A5100 have it's own built in RAID 
> controller, or is that
> > handled with the Fiber Channel card?  If it will work, and 
> perform well
> > enough for a huge database under Win2k, I can pass this off 
> and use it for
> > as long as I need it, and then give it to another 
> department when I'm
> done.
> >
> > If you don't know, can you tell me who I might contact to 
> find this out?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jay
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