[Soekris] FaQ

[Philippe Clérié]

2.5" hard drives apparently are not actually designed to work 
continuously. FWIW I crashed 3 IBM Travelstar on a GCT/Allwell box, 
each after 6/8 months on 24/7 duty. Admittedly, utility power in my 
area is actually pretty poor, but my 3.5" drives on servers do last 
a lot longer under the same conditions.

Philippe


On Sunday, 6 March 2005 15:24, mats wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just about to buy a soekrisbox and I'm aiming at net4801. So
> far I have used an old ibm aptiva for firewall/routing and I'm
> used to openbsd. I have looked for faq's but couldn't find any
> with my questions so I try here.
>
> I prefer to have a 2,5' harddrive in the box instead of a
> flashcard. Does any 2,5' hardrive fit into the box? Or must there
> be some special brand?
>
> If I use some adapter and plug it into my ordinary pc (i386) and
> then install openbsd there and then just plug it into the
> soekrisbox, will that work? From openbsd 3.6 there is a choice in
> the installation if I want to use comport for console and that
> seems to be the right choice for soekris.
>
> This is my questions so far and it would be very kind if someone
> would have time to answer. I guess you have seen this question
> here a million times and I hope this isn't to annoying.
>
> /Mats