[rescue] Apple HW Rumors

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>> 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.

>From what I understand, OS X server will not boot from *any* RAID
partition--even 0.  Of course, this may be limited to *SW* RAID, since
the X server hardware has 3 separate IDE channels, one for each of the
internal disks that the server can hold.  OS X comes with built-in
RAID SW, and the server cannot be booted from disks RAIDed with
it.  Which seems pretty damned stupid, in my mind (and also says
something about the level at which the SW RAID is operating vis-
a-vis, say, Veritas).

Since the Clariion shows up to the host as simply a SCSI LUN (ditto
with the Sun T3, etc), I would expect the server to boot off of it,
but I can't say for sure.

I wonder if there are any OS X server/server hardware lists anywhere?
I'd love to get my hands on an OS X server to play with.

=Nadine=