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  1. #1
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    Hard Disk Replacement

    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

    Dalek

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    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

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    Good question !

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

    Cheers

    Dalek

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    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

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    Anybody know of a way of finding out ?



    Cheers

    Dalek

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    For MHz: http://phpsysinfo.sf.net
    For kernel: uname -v (maybe something else, see uname --help)
    This forum officially ****ing sucks

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    Thanks for the help roly (and everyone else)

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

    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

    Cheers

    Dalek

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    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
    Alex Bajan
    RaQport.com tel: 703-528-0114
    Arlington VA 22207 alex@raqport.com

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

    YouŽll see a lot of cpu information, check: cpu MHz line.

    regards
    ernesto

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    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 ???



    Is there a windows based tool to do this ?

    Dalek

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    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 ???



    Is there a windows based tool to do this ?

    Dalek

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

    help !

    Dalek

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    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/...lt.raq.general

    Sorry I couldn't help you more.

    Brandon

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    Ok m8

    Thanks to everyone for all the help


    Trundles off to sun forum

    Dalek

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