Yeah, I have a 320Gb disk running fine here too.

--- Markus W Kilbinger <mk@kilbi.de> wrote:

> >>>>> "James" == James Hartley <jjhartley@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>     James> I haven't seen this addressed in the archives. If it is
>     James> there, I missed it. Is there a way to determine what is
> the
>     James> maximum sized drive the RaQ 2/Qube 2 will address? Most
> IDE
>     James> controllers from the mid- to late-'90's era has 128GB or
>     James> 137GB limitations:
> 
>     James>
>
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
> 
>     James> Any information would be appreciated.
> 
> I only can confirm on my
> 
>   NetBSD 4.99.28 (QUBE2) #41: Wed Aug 15 08:10:09 MEST 2007
>         kilbi@qie:/usr/src/sys/arch/cobalt/compile/QUBE2
>   Cobalt Qube 2
>   total memory = 256 MB
> 
> a 250 GB PATA disk
> 
>   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 SP2514N>
>   wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
>   wd0: 232 GB, 484521 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x
> 488397168 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)
> 
> is just running fine.
> 
> Markus.
> 



Glyn Astill



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