Re: Maximum disk size on a Shark

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <1229125057.12097.4.camel@merlin>,
Richard Earnshaw  <Richard.Earnshaw%buzzard.freeserve.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there's a limit on the size of disk that the shark
>firmware can support?
>
>I recently bought a 80G laptop drive to put in it, but the firmware
>doesn't seem to be able to see it, and NetBSD install kernel can't find
>it either (I think it just asks the OFW code).
>
>I know that the cabling is OK (it can find a smaller laptop drive that
>I've 'borrowed' from my netwinder), and I know the drive is OK (if I
>plug it into a PC using the same cabling as I use on the shark then it
>can find it as well); so have I bought a (small) brick?

Buy a usb case for $10 and you have a nice usb backup device.

christos