Upgrading Quantum Snap Server Capacity? 13
panicboy asks: "I had a client (a dotcom casualty) give me a new, unused 40GB Quantum Snap! Server in lieu of payment. I'd like to replace the pair of 20GB drives inside the thing with something larger -- say, a pair of 80GB drives. If this is possible, the thing would rock; right now, it's probably not quite enough storage to be worth using. I've looked for sites that might explain how to do this, but no luck so far. Anyone have any suggestions? I'd hate to have to sell the thing."
Re:These things suck! (Score:1)
They said that I should upgrade the software in the unit I just received because they upped the timeout for IDE commands from 2 seconds to 20 seconds. That seemed severely wrong to me.
Throw it away, or pull the drives and put them in something better.
Re:These things suck! (Score:1)
THe NFS implementation sucks though since its on FAT32 but for the money.... if you just need space for your MP3's these boxes rock.
40GB (Score:1)
How many mp3's do you have?
Jeremy
These things suck! (Score:1)
Sorry, but someone was going to have to break the news to you sometime. My company bought one of these things, thinking we could use it for people to store thier data on, seeing as how it supported NFS and all. But, there is one little catch, is NFS on a FAT32 fs, which means no ownership, no symlinks, and no permissions. Sorry, these things aren't useful for much other than a whole crap load of MP3s.
But, knowing this might give you some insight as to how to format new drives, (I would guess FAT32).
Sorry to have to ruin your dreams
--Alex
Re:Completely useless (Score:1)
Re:Completely useless (Score:1)
Well, If you don't want the thing... (Score:1)
Some actual information (Score:2)
http://www.quantum.com/support/knowledge_base.h
Re:Huh (Score:2)
If, however, the hard drives are JUST data (i.e. firmware OS) then there's a pretty good chance that it assumes that it's got pre-formatted hard drives. Unless you format them, there's a very good chance that again, it's a no-go and you'll break everything.
And then finally, even if you were to know that you needed to format them, in what format? Do you know the FS format for them? If not, how exactly do you intend to get them ready?
Remember, this isn't something which has a boot prompt to which you can just install linux. It's an embedded system. Unless you're willing to really play, you're not going to figure out that much by just breaking the things.
Re:Completely useless (Score:2)
Or just run 2.4.x =)
Propetory hardware. (Score:2)
I worked with some since dead specialised hardware which required the disks to contain special signatures written outside of the filesystem, otherwise the filesystem wouldn't get mounted. They may have used special disk firmware as well. You had to use an undocumented mechanism to format a drive sucessfully, only known to the manufacturers own tech-support engineers.
What have you done yet? (Score:2)
Have you opened it up yet? Do you at least know what kind of drives you're dealing with? Is the OS on the disk or in firmware? Are there any dipswitches in the MB and are they labeled? Does the managements software have any obvious references to HDD or volume size?
If you're a hardware newbie, then post hight res digital pics for us to examine and comment on.
Basically, if they turn out to be IDE drives, the investment in a pair of drives is reasonably small and experimentation is a good path. I'd use something like Ghost or Partition Magic (I know, PC stuff) to move the images to the larger drives.
Also, you are reasonable to proceed on the assumption that the original engineers kept an eye open to expansion and/or tollerating multiple HDD sources, which would invariably come in differing sizes and block/sector translation modes.
Hope this helps.
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
Completely useless (Score:3)