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[tonj]

I've just bought some raq's off ebay, got them home but I'm a bit puzzled...
I thought a raq4i was a single drive unit. Is that correct? I've never owned a raq4i, I've always gone for raq4r's however this raq4i I bought has two ide ports on the motherboard. And when this raq boots I see in the console it says:

Initializing ethernet: 2 controller(s) found
Initializing IDE: found ALI M5229 at 00:78
scanning ide0: master
scanning ide1:
IDE: stabilizing spinup: 30%


does this mean I have a raq4r and not a raq4i? It clearly states raq4i on the rear sticker but I've used a raq4r many times and this raq4i is behaving exactly the same way as a raq4r. Thanks if anyone can shed light.

[c0op3r]

All the RaQ 4's (be it i, r or cache) have the 2 IDE ports inside.

You can easily turn any of these into RaQ 4r's with the Software update and a second sled (some even have the sled and cable in them already).

The Cache model will not have the PCI expansion port though.

[tonj]

wow c0op3r you're right, all this time I never knew. I fudged a 2nd drive into this raq4i, installed the OS and now it's behaving like a full blown raq4r. I'm very pleased indeed and thanks for your help.

[c0op3r]

No Problem what so ever, did you already have the Sleds? I have got the machine that came both ways some with them and some without, but they are cheap on eBay if needed.

Next thing I want to try; I got old 200gig Seagate HDs at work the other day on a pull-off job, I am going to look up the specs and see if I can get them to work in a 550, I know I will only get 130'ish GBs of use, for for the low low cost of nothing, what do I have to lose.

If they have a jumper for LBA24 I think they might just work!

[tonj]

yeah I had a faulty raq4r gathering dust behind the table since a year ago, I bricked the rom chip on it (red faced). But it's been a godsend for spares like sleds and fans and ribbons and even drives.
I use 200gb drives in my raq4's as well, I favour the WD2000JB's. It doesn't matter that they only use 130gb, the drives are cheap anyway and great for network storage.

[XIIONET]

In there day these units made great servers. They're still decent for some stuff. The only problem with the IDE interface the software RAID slows things down for i/o intensive stuff. Uses ATA100 I believe.