[SunHELP] hardware RAID on sparc solaris

[Adam Mazza]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Phil Brutsche wrote:

> 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.

There are RAID backplanes for E450s that will do HW RAID. The software is
basically the same as RM6. IIRC the backplanes can take 8 disks.

Adam Mazza