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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 3i with big drives {Scanned}
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 3i with big drives {Scanned}
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Sep 25 03:53:01 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Adam J. Dein wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had every attempted to, or better yet successfully
> completed, put in some rather large drives in a Raq 3i. My 3i is running as
> a 4r right now and I wanted to upgrade from twin 20gb drives to twin Maxtor
> 5400rpm 160gb drives.
>
> So far I've tried an OS install as a Raq 4r and a Raq 550 to no avail. The
> install appears to complete but both instances hang somewhere in the boot
> process.
>
> Any ideas? Are these drives just too darn big? If so, what's the max I can
> stick in there?
AFAIK 120Gb drives are the max, seems like Bruce Timberlake mentioned this
also.
Gerald
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