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Re: CLARiiON Disk arrays
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Kasper Petersen)
Wed Sep 24 04:50:38 1997
To: physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Martin Kasper Petersen <mkp@socsci.auc.dk>
Date: 24 Sep 1997 08:49:18 +0200
In-Reply-To: physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz's message of "Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:13:51 +1200"
>>>>> "Mark" == M S Aitchison <physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
Hi Mark,
Mark> Has anybody used these Data General disk arrays with Linux? Can
Mark> Linux take advantage of some of the fancy features (or does that
Mark> require DG's own software??). As far as I can tell they can
Mark> simply sit on a SCSI bus and look like a normal (ok, RAID)
Mark> disk... assuming it isn't using fiber channel.
I've got a C150 sitting here (on a Sun, however), but I'm not using
any of CLARiiON's software. Just plug in an old vt100-terminal and you
can monitor/configure the RAID.
Please note that the most CLARiiON arrays (i.e. the non-fiber ones)
are delivered with differential SCSI-interface.
--
Martin Kasper Petersen BOFH, IC1&2, Aalborg University, DK
mailto:mkp@SunSITE.auc.dk http://www.socsci.auc.dk/~mkp/
