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Re: [cobalt-users] Install larger HD in raq4i
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Install larger HD in raq4i
- From: Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Oct 31 10:49:08 2001
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
> > > Hi friends!, Mark here , the new guy, I want to install a
> > > new larger HD on my raq4i, before I start hosting, It
> > > has a Seagate 20g - ata 33 5400 rpm. in now I want to
> > > increase to 40gig. Can I replace with ata 66 or 100?...
> >
> > The drive controllers in the RaQ3 and RaQ4 are only ATA/33. You cannot
> > use 7200RPM drives in them (I have only seen ATA/66 or ATA/100 7200RPM
> > drives).
> >
> AFAIK ATA/66 and ATA/100 drives work on an ATA/33 system. They are backwards
> compatible. (7200 might be too hot though)
I tried ATA/66 7200RPM drives in my own RaQ4, and they did not work. I
never got beyond the "Loading kernel" message on the LCD. OS Restore was
flaky too...
Probably it was the power consumption that was the problem. There's not
a lot of headroom in the RaQ's power supply.
--
Bruce Timberlake
Technology Engineer
Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
U: http://www.sun.com/cobalt/