I'm thinking about buying a 1-2 TB SATA drive and installing it into the Qube 2 via a SATA -> PATA adapter. I'll use a CF card for the boot partition. Are there any obvious reasons why this setup wouldn't work?
Thanks. -Chris On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:19 AM, kenneth westelinck <[email protected]> wrote: > Glyn Astill wrote: >> >> I've used a 320GB disk with not problems, recently I switched to CF too. >> I'd be interested how you chapps get on with debian, as I never managed to >> get a stable debian setup, I've since stuck to netbsd and it's been rock >> solid. > > You can all read the report on how I did it here: > http://kennywest.blogspot.com/2010/02/story-of-cobalt-qube.html > > Right now, the Qube isn't doing anything yet. I have the intention of using > it as a Samba / NFS server to store backups. > It has been running for a while now, no crashes yet. > > I was wondering if you were able to boot from this 320 GB hard drive, since > mine just refuses and halts with an "ide: resetting" error / warning > message. Mounting the drive from the boot prompt doesn't work either, so I > am guessing my drive is too new for the Qube > (http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=768). > > I was also wondering which stability issues you were experiencing. From what > I can read on the Internet, I see there are other people also experiencing > stability issues, but what are they. Kernel related, software related, ... ? > > Thanks. > > > regards, > > Kenneth > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
