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. ____________________________________________________ If what I say offends you then it was probably meant to do so Andrew Nemchenko drew at usfamily.net Home: 651-681-8572 Work: 952-932-4081 Pager: 612-264-1737 http://www.kuzmich.cjb.net ----- 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 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $7.99/mo! ------