On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:33:11 +0100, Markus W Kilbinger
<kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> >>>>> "Jurrie" == Jurrie Lulofs <jurrie@sackheads.org> writes:
> 
>     Jurrie> While I've seen reports of RaQs and Qubes running with
>     Jurrie> 120GB drives does anyone know of success with larger
>     Jurrie> drives?
> 
> I'm using a 160 GB drive in a qube2 w/o any problem:
> 
>   viaide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 1
>   viaide0: VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP) ATA33 controller
>   viaide0: bus-master DMA support present
>   viaide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
>   viaide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
>   atabus0 at viaide0 channel 0
>   viaide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
>   viaide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
>   atabus1 at viaide0 channel 1
>   [...]
>   wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <SAMSUNG SV1604N>
>   wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
>   wd0: 149 GB, 310101 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 312581808 sectors
>   wd0: 32-bit data port
>   wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
>   wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA)
> 
>     Jurrie> Are there reasons to believe that there would be any
>     Jurrie> problems or does the viewpoint of "as long as there's a
>     Jurrie> small ext2 partition for the firmware to boot from you'll
>     Jurrie> be OK" still prevail?
> 
> IMHO the latter should be correct.
> 
>     Jurrie> The current crop of sales makes 200GB and 250GB drives
>     Jurrie> very enticing for those wanting to use NetBSD/cobalt-based
>     Jurrie> boxes as file servers.
> 
> 160 GB already requires LBA48 addressing (see above) which works
> flawlessly. So 200 GB and/or 250 GB should work too (from a qube/raq's
> point of view ;-)).

I wonder if it's worth putting in a fancy ATA card when the Qube
already has some throughput problems?

Then again, if you do put one in, you still have to have a boot disk
on the primary IDE channel.

Andy