On May 21, 6:00 pm, Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several people who use large drives (say 300 or 500 GB) in > their Cobalt, but from time to time we also get some reports from > people with large drives whose Cobalt doesn't boot. >
Good stuff! Well if it doesn't work I can always use it elsewhere or put it on a PCI IDE card. > > Failing putting a large enough drive onto the internal IDE .. what > > SATA PCI boards are supported with mipsel ? And how well do combo > > boards with SATA + USB on the same PCI board work ? (heard that combo > > boards in Cobalt-NetBSD are not so hot, how about Debian ?) > > We provide several SATA drivers, but whether it works is another > question. I'm not sure how many people are using PCI cards in their > Cobalt, but hopefully someone else will comment. In any case, you > have to make sure to get a PCI card that actually fits into your > Cobalt (i.e. not one of those modern PCI cards that use a different > PCI standard). I haven't heard anything negative or positive about > SATA + USB cards, sorry. > -- Again I'll give it a go, wil report back here if it's good or bad :-) Oh yes ... the netboot instructions on your website were excellent ... but didn;t work :-) I had to amend things slightly to get mine up and running. Thanks! Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
