Hi

First post :)

Can somone give me some advice please ?

I have a Cobalt NAS RAQ which is fitted with two 13Gb (i think?) hard drives. I like to replace these with something bigger, say two 60gb drives. My question is... is this possible given the operating system and how do i do it ?

I already have images of each of the disks using Norton Ghost 2001 after putting the drives in a PC. Is it just a simple case of applying these images to the new disks and using the auto expand (?) feature of Ghost or will i run into difficulties with the operating system.

Any advice would be much appriciated

Cheers :D

Dalek

Does your NASRaQ have a 300 or 450Mhz processor?

If it's 300, you can't go larger than 30GB, if it's 450 you should be able to use a larger drive though I think just how large depends on the exact kernel you're running.

Brandon

Good question !

Err how do i check ? Is there a table relating to kernal / max hard disk size ?

Cheers

Dalek

Originally posted by Dalek
Good question !

Err how do i check ? Is there a table relating to kernal / max hard disk size ?

Cheers

Dalek

Dont think so...
Perhaps the mobo/bios has that limits

Anybody know of a way of finding out ?

:D

Cheers

Dalek

For MHz: http://phpsysinfo.sf.net
For kernel: uname -v (maybe something else, see uname --help)

Thanks for the help roly (and everyone else)

Unfortunately I’m a Microsoft head (boo, hiss :D)

I've not got a clue what I’m doing with linux/unix etc. Do you know if I can get the required information using a windows based tool? Or can you advise a complete linux/unix newbie how to find out the required information ? Kind of step by step if possible :o

Cheers

Dalek
:o :o :blush:

I think you can restore up to 40 GB any IDE
but you have to use the lastest OS from May
you can use SEAGATE 40GB ST340810A
about $95.00

Login as root (su) then:
cat /proc/cpuinfo

You´ll see a lot of cpu information, check: cpu MHz line.

regards
ernesto

Hi

Ive done that and get the following info

cpu : MIPS
cpu model : Nevada V10.0
system type : Cobalt Networks Server
BogoMIPS : 249.86
byteorder : little endian
unaligned accesses : 32
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
extra interrupt vector : yes
hardware watchpoint : no

Does this mean its a 250Mhz cpu ???

:confused:

Is there a windows based tool to do this ?

Dalek

Here is my output. i have a 60GB Hard Drive

[admin@ns admin]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 450
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 596.38
temperature : 28
system type : RaQ4

Originally posted by Dalek
Hi

Ive done that and get the following info

cpu : MIPS
cpu model : Nevada V10.0
system type : Cobalt Networks Server
BogoMIPS : 249.86
byteorder : little endian
unaligned accesses : 32
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
extra interrupt vector : yes
hardware watchpoint : no

Does this mean its a 250Mhz cpu ???

:confused:

Is there a windows based tool to do this ?

Dalek

Is there another command i can use to get the correct info or is that the correct info ?

help ! :bawling:

Dalek

Well, I originally told you to determine which processor you had in your box, because from that we could make an educated assumption on which BIOS you had, and therefore what size HD you could install.

Unfortunately, your NASRaQ has an older MIPS processor, like the original RaQ1 and RaQ2's, so I'm at a complete loss to help you on the HD size. The bogomips number isn't an indicator of Mhz, but think of it as a measure of how much processing power you have available (and 250 isn't a whole lot....)

For best results, post your question to the official Sun Cobalt forum and pray for a reply from one of the techs.

http://supportforum.sun.com/cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?/cobalt.raq.general

Sorry I couldn't help you more.

Brandon

Ok m8

Thanks to everyone for all the help


Trundles off to sun forum:)

Dalek