On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:08:32AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > I'm curious: you imply that vendors have no recourse to force the _disk_ > vendors to supply parts which work right (as defined by standard). > is that really true? I'd be surprised if Dell doesn't get pretty emphatic > cooperation from their disk vendor(s).
If you recall our past discussions here about "raid duty" disks, there are a couple of things not in the standard which are significant: vibration resistance, and the disk's maximum retry time vs. raid controllers deciding there's a timout. Most standards have problems like that. You can't imagine the interesting time PathScale had getting our InfiniBand products to cooperate well with Mellanox parts. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
