[rescue] Apple HW Rumors

[Tim H.]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:28:47 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> 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. 

That must depend on the raid controller, because the ones I have seen
often handle all the raid, and hand through a single device, totally
invisible to the controller.  Unless the desire was for software raid,
in which case I have no applicable OS X knowledge.

Tim