Subject: Re: Qube 2 - 1.6.1 and 3
To: Nick Pettefar <Nick@Pettefar.com>
From: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/10/2007 12:12:14
I dont have a large disk connected but I heard reports of 250GB drives 
working with Qube.

Regards,
Alex


Nick Pettefar wrote:
> Hi,  are you guys connecting your large discs directly to the Qube 2 or 
> using an interface card?  I thought it was limited to <137GB.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On 10 Jan 2007, at 06:50, Alex Pelts wrote:
> 
>> Glyn,
>> I just tried to transfer large files between netbsd and windows. That 
>> is the only computers I have. I made a big 10GB file using dd from 
>> /dev/zero then tried to transfer it to windows. I could only transfer 
>> 4GB because my windows filesystem is fat32 so the file size is 
>> limited. But I could transfer 4GB 3 times without qube ever locking up 
>> or anything of the sort. So I assume my qube is stable.
>> I am running netbsd-3 kernel from cvs and 3.1 userland. Until I 
>> rebuilt kernel with SOSEND_NO_LOAN option my box crashed regularly but 
>> after that I discovered new faith in netbsd :) It seems stable enough 
>> as webserver.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> Glyn Astill wrote:
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> It'd be interesting if you could try a large amount of data and see
>>> what happens.
>>> I have similar problems to Claudio (I am using 3.99.17), whereby if I
>>> try to copy over a lot of data to a samba share (maybe its samba at
>>> fault? I haven't tried any other method) We're talking anywhere
>>> between 5 and 80 gig then at some point the qube stops responding,
>>> and thats it, it's gone and needs to be rebooted.
>>> However I have managed to copy a lot of data without it crashing, I
>>> think this is just luck, but on every occasion I've had an ssh
>>> connection running top so I can see the utilisation, and I'm sure
>>> this seems to help.
>>> Glyn
>>> --- Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>> I run netbsd-3 branch without any problems for a long time.
>>>> Networking is stable and I can transfer any large file. I have not 
>>>> tried 4gig
>>>> but I can try it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brian McEwen wrote:
>>>>> On Jan 7, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Claudio Leiva S wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi guys:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is kind of wired, for long time I battled with 3 and my
>>>> Qube and at
>>>>>> last I give up because:
>>>>>>
>>>>> I thought you had 3.99.17 working fine, which is just about 4.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> What happened to:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rowdy:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been using 3.99.17 restore cd created by Dennis
>>>> Chernoivanov
>>>>>> without any issue, in fact it works very good on my Qube and it
>>>> does
>>>>>> not  have any problem at the moment to set up the network, you
>>>> should
>>>>>> give it a try!!.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now that 3.0.1 is out, have somebody try it on a Qube??.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Claudio Leiva
>>>>>> Las Vegas, Nevada
>>>>>> USA
>>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.com
>>>>>> http://cleiva.no-ip.com/forum
>>>>>> (Powered By NetBSD for Cobalt)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowdy"
>>>> <rowdy@netspace.net.au>
>>>>>> To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:16 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Setting up root. ..
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> Glyn Astill
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