The Sun Fiver channel disk array is platform independent that was the entire
idea of creating Fibre Channel. I know this because I work for a Company
that makes Fibre channel switches and I use all kinds of mass storage
equiptment to preform performance testing.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Austad, Jay <austad at marketwatch.com>
To: TCLUG <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] OT (sorta): Sun disk arrays


> No one I ask really seems to know the answer to this question.  I need to
> purchase another Sun A5100 Fiber Channel disk array to add some capacity
to
> a Sun system that we may not have much longer.  I NEED the space, but
since
> we may not be using it for much longer, I need to find a way to repurpose
it
> before I purchase it.  Unfortunately, a half terabyte company MP3 server
> would not be looked very highly upon by the penny pinchers.
>
> So, does anyone know if I can use the array with a Windows 2000 database
> server?  Does the A5100 have it's own built in RAID controller, or is that
> handled with the Fiber Channel card?  If it will work, and perform well
> enough for a huge database under Win2k, I can pass this off and use it for
> as long as I need it, and then give it to another department when I'm
done.
>
> If you don't know, can you tell me who I might contact to find this out?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jay
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