RE: [cobalt-users] Raq 3i with big drives {Scanned}

["H.P. Noordam" <bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> 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.
> 


Correct. I crammed in 200Gb drives just to see what happens. The Qube, &
RAQ correctly identify them in dmesg, but partitioning and formatting
becomes a mess. 

Bob.