Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

You can also do it with Compact Flash cards (or similar).

Bit of a toughie if you don't have any such cards hanging around, or if you don't have any firewire drives going spare....

The trouble with all such 'clever tech' approaches to emulating a RAC is that it's entirely unnecessary. You can do it perfectly well with a boring old IDE drive and little else.

Regards
HJR "Mark J. Kounalis" <mkounal_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:vc8d8md7kmrta4_at_corp.supernews.com...
> There was a one-page article in the latest Oracle magazine that suggested
> that it was easy (and fairly cheap) to implement shared storage using
> Firewire. FYI.
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http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/opinion/coekaerts_linux01.html)
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> "Jack" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:wNzwa.10595$6q6.2431702_at_news2.telusplanet.net...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am planning to install 9i RAC on two test machine. Are external shared
> > hard disks mandatory? Can one disk on one of the machine act as "shared
> hard
> > disks"? Do shared hard disks have to be external? I just want to know if
I
> > can make use of the internal IDE disk to test drive RAC on my home PC.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 20:05:05 CDT