mikeiver1 wrote:
You don't have to dedicate the whole drive to NL, it just grabs 8MB and leaves the rest of the partition to you for use. The rest of the drive can be used as part of the array with no hit to performance.
You can boot off of a CDROM and use that to build the NN on the system. An alternate is to use a USB Floppy for the boot, works just fine.
As far as the SCA backplane, they are transparent to both the SCSI controller and the drives, exception being those backplanes that monitor health of the bus.
Why don't you just go with NL2.0x and be done, it is much better suited to your needs than NN is.
Mike
Mike, thanks for barely reading the prior posts.. nice kneejerk fanboy post BTW
jeez, it took me 4 kicker floppys, and 3 diff USB cards to get NL2USB booting. If I scrounged around and got a replacement SCSI CDROM, then yes NL2HDD or NL2CD would have worked... but I couldn't build a NL2HDD in another system without using a complete drive.
So, no sympathy here anyone? I was thinking a NanoSCSI would be pretty easy (just compile without IDE and with Megaraid, if it doesn't fit on the floppy then forget it) and have a decent base of buyers... but if everyone should just use NL2... then what's the point of NN ?
Well, I'm sure Ralph and Tony aren't interested in making boutique NN floppies for every Tom, Dick, and Harry that posts here (unless they charged more $). I just thought that experience would give them something to think about.
Cheers.