Hello Mark, I think you should also look at power consumption of your drive as the power supply of the Qube is 33watt. I can imagion that the new quiet drive sometimes use a bit more power than in the old days. I myself use a 160Gb samsung and have a USB pci card installed
Jacob > * Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-20 21:25]: >> Can anyone tell me what the maximum drive size on the internal IDE of >> a Qube2 running Debian is ? (I'm looking at one of those 750GB >> Seagates) > > 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. > >> 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. > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
