David Albert wrote:

>What large hard drives work well in a Raq 2?
>
>I have a Raq2+ with the original 16GB drive.  I use it mostly as a file
>server and would like to put a larger hard drive in it.  I've noticed that
>most large drives consume quite a bit more power than the stock 16GB
>IBM-DTTA-351680 that came with it and vaguely recall reading that placing a
>larger load on the Raq2 power supply can cause problems .  Has anyone
>replaced their drive with a larger one (>=120GB) and had it run for some
>time without problems?  Has anyone had problems with larger drives?  If you
>would share details (drive/model), I would appreciate it.  Thanks!
>
>  
>
i have a WD 200GB running in a qube2 with netbsd 1.6:

wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD2000JB-00EVA0>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 186 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using 
DMA data
transfers)

and a maxtor 200GB running as the second drive in a seagate nasraq (raq2 
oem'd by cobalt for seagate).
primary drive in that machine is the original seagate 30GB.

the nasraq is running linux debian-sarge with no problems.

    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcc00-0xcc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcc08-0xcc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: ST330630A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Maxtor 6B200P0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 59777640 sectors (30606 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=59303/16/63
hdc: attached ide-disk driver.
hdc: 398297088 sectors (203928 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24792/255/63
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [3720/255/63] p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 >
 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3

the only issue i've run across is that you make sure that the (large) 
drive is jumpered as master and not cable select.
wd and maxtor have different jumpering schemes, but both ship drives 
jumpered as cable select these days.

that cost me two hours while i was trying to set up my qube2 with the 
200GB drive.

see <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2003/12/05/0001.html> for 
more details of my cube setup.

no problems with the large hd in the nasraq. that machine stays powered 
up all the time as does the qube2.



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