----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janko Knops" <polthemol@home.nl>
To: <port-cobalt@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: Large hard drives in Raq2/+


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mailarc" <mailarc@gw.jhauser.dyndns.org>
> To: "David Albert" <david_albert@comcast.net>
> Cc: "Kevin Jordan" <krjordan@348north.com>; "NetBSD Cobalt list" 
> <port-cobalt@NetBSD.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Large hard drives in Raq2/+
>
>
>> 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.
>
> I have here an 80 gig hdd (maxtor) running in my qube2. First with the 
> original powersupply, only that bugger burned itself up. Cruising around 
> google it looks like that was a known issue. You can luckely replace it 
> rather easy with a multi-use powersupply (can get those at any electronics 
> shop for a fair price), you only need to make sure that the Volts match 
> the original qube2 power supply, amps can be higher (gets you more Watts, 
> so you can kick in some more hdd's).
>

and nevermind my post, just mentoined it was bout raq2, not qube (let's 
blame being up late for my screw up)

sorry for it :)
> Now it manages quite well, stays up 24/7 and works pretty nice.
>