Well, I am not considering an 3.5" IDE disk, but a 2.5" SATA, I was thinking on mounting the disk internally or just plugging an USB External Disk. I am bootinng from CF so the HDD will just be for storage. Ok, so it's time to start looking for a nice HDD to buy. Thanks for your answers!
2011/5/22 Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only <[email protected]>: > > by the way, this is the setup I currently use: > > http://soekris.kd85.com/images/dsc/tn/dsc07815.jpg.html > > it has a 2 TB disk now and a SCSI card for my tape drive to dump backups > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:44:28PM +0200, Wim Vandeputte Mailing list only > wrote: >> >> hey, >> >> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 04:31:55PM -0500, Oziko Fusion wrote: >> > I want to install a 1TB Sata HDD on my Soekris Net5501, does any one >> > knows if this deve will support that HardDisk? >> >> yes, this will work, both in SATA and PATA: >> >> http://soekris.kd85.com/images/tn/dsc08198.jpg.html (ok the top drive is >> a mockup ;-) >> >> but I've tested both. >> >> You can run a full size 3.5" drive direct from the soekris SATA power >> port but it needs to be a WDC green power drive >> >> (or you should get an extra external power supply for the drive, like I did >> in the 2 drive setup) >> >> You can boot from the drive, but you need to make sure the boot partition >> is < 512 MB >> >> You can of course get 2.5" drives but those were too expensive back when >> I started. >> >> One of the drives I use is actually 2 TB > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
