From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jun 16 9:41:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD8D1559B for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 09:41:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@inc.net) Received: from inc.net (niki.noc.inc.net [204.95.194.201]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA07642; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:41:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3767D45E.25A67A18@inc.net> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:44:14 -0500 From: Steve Kaczkowski Organization: inc.Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Mays Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netapps References: <3766D0C6.D35DC02E@launchpad.win.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Mays wrote: > > I've already asked Netapps about it. They said that they wouldn't support oem > drives themselves in the event of a drive failure (obviously) but it doesn't > effect the warranty or support for the rest of the box. > When we first got our NetApp we found out it was a DEC based shelf, so we were like "OK, we'll just get drives for that shelf", NOPE, it didn't see them. I guess the filer only knows about certain disk IDs and if you stick in disks that are not on that list it won't be able to use them... Heck, you're already paying A LOT for the system, you bought it cause you know it's the best thing out there, does it really make sense to chance it and skimp on the most important part of the system? Nope it doesn't... -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom/inc.Net steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message