RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 2700WG HDD Upgrade

["Lyle Scheer" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you move the jumper from slave to master?

- Lyle

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bryan 
> S. Brandt
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:44 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Qube 2700WG HDD Upgrade
> 
> 
> I am attempting to upgrade a Qube 2700WG from 2.1GB to 13.6GB of HDD
> capacity.  There's just not really much you can do with a 2GB 
> server these
> days.  Anyhow, I'm using a Western Digital 136AA 5400 RPM drive.  I
> installed it first in another RH Linux box alongside the 
> original drive, and
> after partitioning the drive similarly (exc. with a much 
> larger /home) I
> used rsync to transfer the file tree using switches that preserve file
> permissions, ownership, devices, etc.  After installing the 
> new drive in the
> Qube, however, the LCD will only read "Starting Up..." and 
> the system will
> not boot.  The power and IDE connections are fine, and the 
> system still
> boots as per usual when the original drive is used.  I am 
> wondering if there
> is either a BIOS issue with recognizing the new drive or if 
> there is just no
> way around acquiring the OS Restore CD.  My concern here is that if I
> purchase the OS Restore CD that it actually will allow this 
> drive to work in
> the Qube...no sense wasting a hundred bucks if it won't work 
> anyway.  Any
> insight here would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Bryan S. Brandt
> 
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