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

[Jim Cowing <jim@xxxxxx>]

>> 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.

The RaQ XTR doesn't have this problem - I have 4 120Gig drives in ours and
it sees all the space (roughly 344Gig in a RAID 5 configuaration), but the
XTR seems to be an entirely different animal than our 4i's. I am glad to
know that the 4r restore image will do 40G now - I use that image to restore
our 4i's to make them 4r's! - and no, I am not an ISP so I am not
misrepresenting anything to customers - we use the RaQ's internally. Maybe
since the XTR is the first product Sun has really touched, that bodes well
for future machines and/or restore CD's.

I thought the rule on the over 30Gig drive limitation was that if you went
larger, you only saw 24Gig less than the real size of the drive. I think it
was a keral limitation of the build Cobalt uses on the 4's.

Jim Cowing

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