On Tuesday, July 20, 2010 08:08:43 pm Robert Heller wrote:
> 'Little' Dell PowerEdge servers with plain (non-RAID) SATA disks
> appearently work that way too (same BIOS stupidity I guess). Once they
> see a disk, they assume it will *always* be there. If you pull the
> disk for some reason (disk failure for example), it complains about a
> missing disk.
I actually consider that a feature, not stupidity. With SATA cables that don't have latches still common, it is all too easy for a cable to fall out (have seen it happen on a Precision 690, and it was a SAS drive not SATA; also have seen it happen with a whitebox with a 3ware 9550 RAID controller, where a SATA cable vibrated loose). I'd rather the box stop booting and then tell me about it than boot anyway. And I like SATA cables with latches.....
I personally would prefer the box to stop and halt boot if the intrusion switch had latched; but only with LOM, DRAC, serial redirect, or IPMI in place to remote console.
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