RE: [cobalt-users] upgrading 550

["Manny Tau" <mtau@xxxxxxx>]

Thnx for this info.
I remember seeing a post about the ROM and a 32 MB limitation on the HD.

Does this apply to the 550?
Will I need to do anything with the ROM to accept the 2 x 80 GB HD's?

thnx, Manny

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:53 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] upgrading 550


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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