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Re: [cobalt-users] upgrading 550
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] upgrading 550
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Apr 2 07:54:00 2004
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Gerald Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Manny Tau wrote:
>
> > Quick questions:
> >
> > Can a 550 with P3 1 GHz 256 RAM with a single 40 GB HD be upgraded to 2 x 80
> > GB HD's by simply replacing/installing the bigger drives and doing a OSRCD
> > restore to recognize the larger drives and activate RAID1?
> >
> > Does the ROM need to be changed to accomodate 2 larger drives from the
> > original single smaller one? If so, how does one do this?
>
> No problem, just add the new drives and do a restore, we have done this
> many times.
We did have one issue, a client provided WD 80GB drives, and they did
not work properly, but Seagate drives did work
Gerald
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