[SunHELP] hardware RAID on sparc solaris

Phil Brutsche phil at giedi.obix.com
Thu Apr 25 20:08:46 CDT 2002


Elwood Blues wrote:
> Having a hard time finding a PCI RAID controller that is supported on
> Solaris (sparc). Found mention of a Sun made board that has been
> discontinued, but very little else. Am I stuck with using a SCSI-SCSI
> canister solution? Can anyone suggest a decent one that will fit in a
> 5 1/4 bay?

It's my understanding that the only way to do RAID on a Sun using the 
internal disks is in software - ie DiskSuite and something from VERITAS 
that I can't remember right off hand.

All hardware RAID implementations I've seen are external canisters that 
connect to the system via raid or FC.


Phil



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