Re: Replacement disk for RaQ 2

Mike Hebel <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:46:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 27, 2010, at 9:51 PM 8/27/10, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

>> So, any recommendations for drives that are known to work in a RaQ 2,
>> or any to avoid?
>
> When I added LBA48 support to NetBSD/cobalt bootloader,
> the following drive worked fine on Qube 2700 with a cheap
> SATA-IDE bridge.
>> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <Hitachi HDS721616PLA380>
>> wd0: 153 GB, 319120 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x  
>> 321672960 sectors

Any recommendations on SATA cards that work?  I don't think you can  
boot from a SATA card can you?

Though I have to admit that using an adapter in this situation  
probably wouldn't slow down the outside access to the drive data much.

-- 
Mike

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- Charlie