That would be nice, wouldn't it?  Freeing up 2 36GB drives would be awesome.

$5 says it just replaces the floppy disk as a way to boot/load media

Just got word our 880 is on the dock.  We're leaving tomorrow to steal 3 FC9s from an existing implementation and plug 'em in to the 880, along with 1 DS14 shelf.  Can't wait to see the DS14; fiber all the way, baby!

Any recommendations where I store the root volume? FC9 or DS14?  I'm inclined to store it on the FC9, as it's the most legacy. 

Come to think of it, am I supported on what I plan to do with my 880? We plan on running a hybrid environment of shelves; FC9s on the FC adapter, and DS14s on the new fiber adapter...

-john

John Witham
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-----Original Message-----
From: kevin graham [mailto:kgraham@dotnetdotcom.org]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:08 PM
To: toasters
Subject: Re: boot volume with no data

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, neil lehrer wrote:

> are there any particular advantages or disadvantages to just having ontap on
> vol0 and data on other volumes?

...glancing at the 880 info today, I noticed:

       "An integrated CompactFlash boot device simplifies management in
        remote or multifiler environments"

Does this effectivley replace the root volume? If so, is it automagically
mirrored to a cluster partner's compactflash for failover?  (since an ATA
disk wouldn't be visible by both heads).

Nice going.

..kg..