Cobalt RaQ3 Hard Drive Size Limit?

External Since: Apr 19, 2006 Posts: 1

I'm trying to upgrade a RaQ3 from a 8.4GB drive to a 120GB drive. I
performed a net boot/restore with the 120GB drive installed, which
appeared to work fine, but the drive only shows as 17.2GB in the
web-based Server Management interface. The server is running Cobalt OS
5.0. Does anyone know if this due to a hardware limitation, or can I
get this machine to use this larger disk?

External Since: Aug 04, 2005 Posts: 246

cracked DeleteThis @n0de.org wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade a RaQ3 from a 8.4GB drive to a 120GB drive. I
> performed a net boot/restore with the 120GB drive installed, which
> appeared to work fine, but the drive only shows as 17.2GB in the
> web-based Server Management interface. The server is running Cobalt OS
> 5.0. Does anyone know if this due to a hardware limitation, or can I
> get this machine to use this larger disk?

This used to be a problem with old PCs - disks over about 18gb didn't
work because of limitations of the OS and/or hardware. I remember there
was a flurry of drivers and flash-updates to allow larger disks to be
used. Maybe your machine is old enough to have similar issues?