28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
10:14 p.m.
Doc Shipley wrote:
jim stephens wrote:
I won't claim your buddy is wrong, but I don't think I'd take his
word for it. I know my C160 will boot from tape or from CDROM on the
SE chain, so I see no reason it wouldn't boot from an SE disk drive.
The install CD drive is on the SE chain, and there can be SE drives for
storage on there. You just
cant get HPUX to boot from there.
I don't have my 180 up, it is still fresh from the swap meet, but we
bought 4 others in the C line
and none will boot from SE. You can init drives on the SE narrow chain
(I forgot to mention that
the SE chain on the ones I have seen are narrow) and put data there, in
fact several we had had
4 drives, 2 wide diff drives, and two se drives. for the most part we
got them because the wide
boot drives had died, and 1/2 high wide diff drives are rare. So we
ended up with 1 good boot
per guy with a system.
We also messed with D and H systems, which don't have the problem of
only doing diff boot, as
they are larger server systems with controller boards, etc. It may be
that the smaller C systems
have more stuff integrated that they did that.
Anyway as I said I have only sampled maybe 6 Cxxx systems, YMMV
Jim