[rescue] Apple HW Rumors

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:28:47PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:23:26PM -0700, vraptor at employees.org wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, it was written:
> > 
> > >Cutting the Xserve pricing would be a good idea.  If they came out in
> > >a few months with a lowend rackmount, single-CPU, box for $1,000 that
> > >would be great.
> > 
> > Only if they get OS X server capable of booting off of a RAID
> > partition (1,4,5, anything but 0).  Having the desktops bootable
> > off of RAID would be nice, too, but it's pretty well a requirement
> > for servers.
> 
> So, what you are saying is that if I put a SCSI card in my Mac and hook
> it, with the appropriate SE-DIFF adapter, to a Clarion, the machine will
> refuse to boot from the clarion unless it is set to raid 0?  That is
> pretty lame. 

I think the poster is referring to software RAID in this case.  That
is, two or more IDE drives in the Xserve box being part of a RAID
array and being able to boot off that.

The array you are talking about presents itself to the SCSI adapter as
a single drive.

./patrick