Re: Large Drives (Was: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4r raid not showing in gui)

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

on 17/2/02 11:07 AM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Rickard Osser wrote:
> 
>> jeff, I just remembered one thing about the ISO-images for the
>> RaQ4/Qube3, they don't really see larger disks than ~40GB... If you put
>> in larger they will only use around 8GB for the home partition. This is
>> ofcourse fixable but can be a hassle for users not used to
>> "re-partitioning" live file-systems.
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up, Rickard.  This was NOT our problem <smile>, but
> it's worth noting for people who don't realize it.

Ah ... I just had the same problem putting a 40GB disk in a Qube3 ... most
of the disk was unavailable.  Didn't bother stuffing around just sourced a
Seagate 20GB disk just like the OEM (but it wasn't easy).

Cheers,  Malcolm

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