Re: [cobalt-users] Testing Hard Drive for Problems {Scanned}

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, SW wrote:
>
> > To throughly test a hard drive you must be able to dismount it.
> > Makes it a little difficult on a RaQ, unless you install a RaQ3i or RaQ4i
> > on hda, then install the drive you want to test as hdc.
> > Seagate does have Linux versions of the diagnostic utility, look on the
> Seagate Site.
>
> The Seagate linux version only tests SCSI drives. I ended up taking it off
> and testing it on a Windows system which found the drive to be defective. I
> have a spare 40 Gig hard drive laying around which I'm thinking to try to
> install on the Raq3i which I'm going to convert to a Raq550. What I'm
> wondering is do I need to do anything for the Restore CD to use this 40 gig
> hard drive instead of the original Cobalt Hard Drives which come in 15 to 20
> Gig?

No, AFAIK 550 osrcd will work on drives upto 80GB

Gerald
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