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Originally Posted by RED_DEVIL
So i have read tons of threads on if a person can or cant hack certain Snap servers. Alot have been on Meridian based SNAPS...anything different on Quantum based ones? I also heard that you cannot upgrade the hard drives due to LINUX being on the primary drive...is that true? THis has 2 10gb hard drives and i have to 60 gb drives to put in if possible. ANY help is greatly appreciated!
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I have successfully hacked many snaps, and have found that there is a lot of variablility in each model. I have upgraded 2 4000's and found that one had the drives jumpered as cable select, the other was master/slave.
With 2000's I have found that the 1.1 HW models will only see ATA/100 drives; I made a 60GB out of a 8GB I bought on Ebay. The Quantum models seem to see ATA/133 drives as a maximum of 130GB; I just made two 260GB 2000 or mysely and friends. They are both running the latest version of the SW from snap appliances.
I have found a major problem with Meridian 2000's that are roughly below 37000 in serial number. I have wasted two of these trying to upgrade the O/S to the latest release from the website. Both reported that the upgrade was successful, but they will not announce themselves on my network and I can not find them with snap assist. No one seems to know what to do. I have even reflashed the BIOS with a copy from the website but they will not wake up. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? I could really use some help here.
So, in a nutshell, I would buy a 2000 that is quantum branded (most are > 37K in S/N) and you should be fine. Jumper both disks as Master (2.0HW have 2 IDE Channels) and it OS should see the drives and format them (to 130GB). 1.0 HW models need to be jumpered Master and Slave, and be ATA/100.
I'm still looking for the answer to the mysterious Meridian 2000 question.
Good Luck!