SUMMARY: Can fibre based disks be mounted when booting from an installation CD?

["Garsha, Adam" <adam.garsha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If booting from a CD to recover the system, will the fibre based disks

> be visible?

> Second question, what if you have fibre based "tape drives" (e.g. a 
> VirtualTapeLibrary), can you see the fibre based tape drives if you 
> boot from the installation CD?

I received affirmation for EMA and MDR/NSR based storage. That is good
enough for me to deduct that it will also be true for EVA and VTL based
storage. I just wanted to be sure that the CD OS image had the
capability to talk via HBA's, sounds like it does. 

This makes sense because I understand that you can install Tru64
clusters without using a local seed disk--though I have never done it.

I won't be able to actually try this for a couple weeks.

Adam Garsha