Invisible wrote:
> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust 
> that as far as I could throw it!)

I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
What's "hot" about that?

BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
when they put in a new disk for us.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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