Dear list, I've been searching the Internet to see if I could put a large PATA disk inside the Qube 2. Fortunately, the Qube 2 was based on MIPS architecture, whereas the Qube 3 is based on more or less standard i386 architecture. According to what I read on the Internet, the Qube 2 is equipped with an LBA48 controller, so theoretically I could put any _very large_ disk in it. Apparently, this seems to be the case, but the Qube 2 refuses to boot from it (probably firmware related I guess). As a workaround I've put an IDE to Compact Flash adapter inside the Qube 2 to act as Master disk. My larger 320 GB disk acts as a slave. I've created an ext2r0 "/boot" partition of 100 MB on the CF and the rest of the file system is mounted from the larger drive. This setup seems to work great. If anyone is interested, I will be posting a full report with pictures of this adventurous project on http://kennywest.blogspot.com/ this weekend somewhere.
Thank you Debian for supporting the MIPS architecture. I now have a nice looking LAN disk :) regards, Kenneth -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/large-disks-in-Cobalt-Qube-2-tp27652565p27652565.html Sent from the debian-mips mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
