Re: [cobalt-users] Interesting Discovery - RAQ4 & Qube3

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Jerry Farquhar wrote:
> Thought I'd share this discovery..
> 
> We were rebuilding a Raq4r and had it crash a couple times with symptoms of
> a defective drive.  Any way we decided to put a couple spare drives in the
> unit that we had pulled out of a Qube 3 we had upgraded the drives in
> earlier.
> 
> Long and short is the Raq4 booted up on the Qube3 drives and suddenly took
> on the entire personality of the Qube3 including all of the operations and
> functions etc..
> 
> Everything was functional interface features etc..  Unfortunately we didn't
> have a Qube3 in house to play with to see if the reverse was also possible..
> I'm betting that it is.
> 
> This information may not be worth much.. but I thought someone out there
> might find it interesting or useful.  Maybe someone with a Qube3 who wishes
> they had the functionality of a Raq4 etc..

Sorry Jerry, you have discovered a well know fact.

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