[HECnet] Largest PATA drive that a DS10 can use?

[Oleg Safiullin]

sampsa at mac.com wrote:
Gentlemen,
I've currently got 3 x 127 GB PATA drives on CHIMPY - what is the largest drive this machine (DS10) will be capable of using?
Sampsa

Just tested WD2500BB IDE drive (250Gb).
It works just like 127Gb disk...

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Initializing...
*** keyboard not plugged in...
2048 Meg of system memory
probing hose 0, PCI
probing PCI-to-ISA bridge, bus 1
bus 0, slot 9 -- ewa -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 11 -- ewb -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqa -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqb -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 14 -- vga -- S3 Trio64/Trio32
bus 0, slot 16 -- pka -- Adaptec AIC-7880
initializing GCT/FRU at 3ff40000
System Temperature is 36 degrees C

AlphaServer DS10 617 MHz Console V7.3-1, Feb 27 2007 13:17:58
>>>sh dev
dqa0.0.0.13.0                           DQA0                       WDC WD40 0BB-00DEA0   05.03E05
dqa1.1.0.13.0                           DQA1                               Maxtor 6 Y120P0   YAR41BW0
dqb0.0.1.13.0                           DQB0                     WDC WD25 00BB-22RDA0   20.00K20
dva0.0.0.0.0                             DVA0
ewa0.0.0.9.0                             EWA0                           00-02-A5-C6-81-45
ewb0.0.0.11.0                           EWB0                           00-02-A5-C6-81-44
pka0.7.0.16.0                           PKA0                                   SCSI Bus ID 7
>>>

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$ INI DQB0: ALPHATST
$ MOU DQB0: ALPHATST
%MOUNT-I-MOUNTED, ALPHATST mounted on _CTEPBA$DQB0:
$ SH DEV/MO

Device                                   Device                     Error       Volume                 Free   Trans Mnt
Name                                     Status                     Count         Label               Blocks Count Cnt
CTEPBA$DQA0:                       Mounted                           0   ALPHASYS           72841968     396     1
CTEPBA$DQA1:                       Mounted                           0   ALPHAUSR         219968272         1     1
CTEPBA$DQB0:                       Mounted alloc               0   ALPHATST         268433264         1     1
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