Re: My first question on Debian
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:57 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> mtsouk@freemail.gr writes:
> >> > Ever had tha hard disk fail on your server? and in Solaris/Sparc,
> >> > simply remove the defected hard disk and add a new one. Without a
> >> > single reboot or interference in work. *That* I call near perfect.
> >>
> >> Solaris is often called Slowlaris. Not without reason. I have a couple
> >> of old Sun workstations at work, and I installed Debian on them.
> >>
> >> Also does Solaris provide this on Intel hardware!? I really don't
> >> think so. If any of the hard disks fail on my intel computers I just
> >> replace it with a cheap IDE disk. The SCSI disks in my sun computers
> >> are probably worth more than the rest of the old computers themselves.
> >>
> >> Bijan
> >
> > I don't think that Solaris is so slow on x86.
> > And yes, there is Solaris for Intel hardware.
>
> I know there is Solaris on intel. I just doubt that it allows you to
> hot-swap IDE hard disks.
>
> Bijan
hotswaping IDEs require hardware level ability as well as kernel level
abilities. X86 lacks all core hardware hotswapability...periferal hardware is
fine but swaping things like CPUs, Memory, harddrives, etc is impossable on
X86.
Jeremy
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