Cool.. I haven't yet ordered the parts for mine to do that conversion.
 How does the speed increase look?

I managed to do something wierd to my test machine as well.. As I had
it out of its case and poking around, I managed to disturb something.
Now it no longer displays anything on console during poweron and
_immediately_ goes to booting the disk.

-=erik.


On 1/8/07, Robert P. Thille <list-netbsd-port-cobalt@rangat.org> wrote:
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> A while ago I came upon a web page that talked about the possibility
> of having two IDE channels on a RAQ2.  Since I was running RAID 1
> already I figured I might be able to gain some performance, or at
> least a little safety (if the drive electronics on one drive screwed
> up 1 channel, the other might survive).  After some investigation, I
> hunted down the components I needed and did some ugly hand-soldering
> of surface mount components and now I'm booting my RaQ2+ with two IDE
> channels.
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