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Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4R Upgraded to 550



On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Richard Sidlin wrote:

> I have upgraded the software in my 4r to a 550 but discovered that one of the hard drives is faulty. I would like to replace both of
> them with an identical pair. What is the maximum I can put in this RaQ in terms of GB and I presume that I should stick to 5400RPM
> drives. Also, what is the maximum  or optimal amount of RAM I should consider installing.

I recommend drives not larger than 80GB, you can use larger but the kernel
patches will cause the thing to not reboot. People are running 120BG with
the 550 OS, but aren't using the kernel patches.

RAM, optimum is 512MB, as that is the size the K6-2 cache tag RAM can
manage. You can goto 1GB if necessary to prevent swapping. Swap will give
yo a greater performance hit than cache misses.

Gerald
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