[zcx2005]

Inspired by earlier posts I just successfully upgraded the hdd on my Snap 1000.

FWIW, here's the details.

Model: 1000 series
Software: 3.4.803
Hardware: 3.1.1
BIOS: 2.1.363

Hard Disk: Quantum Fireball lct15
Capacity: 30GB nominal

New Disk: Hitachi 7K250 120GB UDMA100 7200 rpm 8MB cache

Here's the steps I used.

1. Backed up all the data from the Snap.

2. Connected to http://<snap1000>/config and formatted the disk.

3. Connected Quantum disk as Primary Master and Hitachi disk as Primary Slave. Used an 80 wire IDE cable connected to built in UDMA100 controller on Abit VP6 motherboard.

4. Booted Knoppix 3.7 from DVD-ROM drive.

5. From a terminal window

$ dmesg | grep hd

reports...
hda: QUANTUM etc.
hdb: HDS722512VLAT80 (HITACHI)

$ su
# dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1M

reports
28629+1 records in
28629+1 records out
30,020,272,128 bytes transferred in 2161 seconds (36 minutes)

Why the 1M block size for the dd command?
Earlier posts reported success with this!

Why dd the whole of the disk?
To reproduce all the file system metadata on the new disk.

6. Rejumpered the Hitachi as Master and fitted to Snap.

7. Booted Snap, checked a ping to its IP, and connect to http://<snap1000>/config.

Disk Utilities, View Disk Status showed disk capacity as about 29MB.

8. Connect to http://<snap1000>/config/debug and do

'config devices format 1000 /reinit'

then

'reboot'.

9. On the reboot the new disk formats and is then ready for use.

View Disk Status now shows 115,424 MB free.

10. Kept the old Quantum drive as a backup in case the OS is needed again. I also made a copy of the drive to an old Maxtor 5T040H4 just in case.


Nothing here that hasn't been on this forum before, except that the upgrade works with the Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 120GB drive. The Snap is now a lot faster and quieter, although the speed of data transfers is limited by the network interface. The best I've seen is 2MB/sec.

Thanks to all on this forum who made this upgrade possible.

zcx