Well its not exactly a raid controller as you would normally think of it,
but its in the array. Thats because if you for instance plug it into a Fibre
channel switch you would see usind the switch managment software that you
have a number of devices connected with out an HBA. But if you want to
access the drives you need to connect a  card. That way when you plug it
directly into the card you should be able to see a list of drives when using
Disk manager either in NT or 2000. It's all meant to work with very little
configuration, almost plug and play type of deal.

----- Original Message -----
From: Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: RE: [TCLUG] OT (sorta): Sun disk arrays


> 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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