Dave Watkins said on Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:38:39PM +1300: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >Which lists? I've had a hell of a time with SCSI SCA connected disks; a > >single bad SCSI disk can wipe out the whole chain, whereas with SATA that > >seems to be less likely. I'd be interested in hearing about SATA ickyness, > >though; from what I've seen, it seems like a good thing. > > > > > SCA connected disks run through a backplane which should prevent this > happening. I would have also suggested SCSI but it seemed price was an issue > and this would have certainly been expensive when coupled with a RAID card I can say from experience that this is not guaranteed. I've had an SCA system explode from inserting a faulty replacement disk just recently. It sucked. I am still curious to know of places where people talk about this sort of thing; though. At this point, SATA seems like the best option. > >Not if you get a real server board; the newer Intel based ones have BIOS > >access via the serial console. :) > > Actually they also have BIOS access via LAN. :-) Really? Mine don't, but that doesn't suprise me. How does it work? M
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