Cobalt RaQ3 Hard Drive Size Limit?

[cra...@n0de.org]

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?

[SpaceGirl]

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?

[cra...@n0de.org]

I'm considering a BIOS limitation, but weren't we well past the 18GB
limit around 2001? I've looked over the motherboard for a BIOS chip,
but the closest thing I can find is an Intel flash IC. I wonder if this
is what could be behaving as the "BIOS" on this board? I've found this
HOWTO for upgrading the RaQ3 to a RaQ550, which involves flashing this
specific IC, and I may give it a try.

http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/Upgrade%20a%20RAQ3%20to%20RAQ550

[Zeffie]

I wouldn't recommend doing that... There are problems that cannot be
patched and public exploits... The RaQ550 os is dead as far as I'm
concerned... The RaQ4 os is the way to go and I will be making more updates
for that soon...

Now to answer your question.
Yes you need to upgrade your bios. I have the 2.3.25 version on my devel
server...
[root ]# cmos -c romrev
2.3.25

You can get upgrade pkgs here
ftp://www.zeffie.com/archives/ROM-update/
I would suggest you use...
ftp://www.zeffie.com/archives/ROM-update/ROM-update-2.3.38-1.pkg

More stuff can be found here
ftp://www.zeffie.com/cobalt/TeamCobalt/thockin/

Whatever you do be careful and sure your rom has good data before you
reboot...
You don't want to kill it...

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[Kirk L Hemelberg]

Hi Guys,

I had the same problem installing and 80Gb drive into a RaQ 3i, the Raq
only recognized it as a 17Gb drive.

I had the 2.3.0 firmware. I got cobalt-2.10.3-ext3-1M.rom image from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=83123
and flashed the Raq over a crossover cable via a telnet SU session.

Restored from the Qube 3 EOL CD from Sun's ftp site and now I've got a
cool Raq - a NAS server NAT router and with the slimserver rpm installed
it's also a streaming media server at our school.

Yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Later,

Kirk