Re: [cobalt-users] xtr restore with 550 OS

["Chris L" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> At the moment I'm in the midst of trying to move all the programs I
> have running on an XTR over to a RaQ 3i (550). Once that is done I
> will be doing exactly what you describe except that I only have 4x30G
> drives. And while at the present I'm using RAID 0 on the XTR I may
> well go to RAID 5. I will point out that the 550 OS, did support
> adding external SCSI devices to the RaQ 3i even though this is not an
> option with the 550. I suspect that Sun was planning to move
> everything over to some form of 550OS to update older models when they
> abandoned  the RaQs  and said to hell with it. I figure it will keep
> the XTR usable for another 5 years. Just heed the warnings about
> upgrading the ROM and let me know how you make out if you wind up
> doing it first.

I went ahead and tried it myself. No problems in doing the ROM update. I
installed the Raq550 OS without any problems. During setup it gives you
options to use RAID0 or RAID5. After setup everything looks great. I'm in
the midst of installing updates and 3rd party packages... if I have any
problems I'll be sure to followup post.

-Chris