Snap 1100 Hard Drive Limit?

[tony]

Hi All,

Just thought id say hello and ask for some advice if anyone can help?

I have just bought a snap 1100 system with an 80Gb drive, I have been using this and have managed to fill it up in no time at all.

So i thought I would upgrade the hard drive in it to a 250Gb drive.

I have amanaged to do this by using some instructions from this site, using "dd" to copy the first 26mb of into from the drive.

The unit boots and I can browse to the web interface, i have re initialised the drive and formatted it, but it is only being picked up as a 128Gb drive!

Has anyone got any advice to help me please??

Thank you in advance!

Kind Regards

Tony

[re3dyb0y]

This is the LBA 48bit Issue

Can you give us the specs of your serveR?

Ie h/w, bios and software



There is also a debug command you can enter, but i cant remember for the life in me what it is atm

David will be able to help when he visits!

[tony]

Hi,

Here is a bit of Info, let me know if there is anything else needed?

Thanks.

Kind Regards

Tony

04/06/2006 18:26:28 Command: bios version


Failsafe Bios Exists
Failsafe v3.4.758.FS Wed Dec 12 14:13:33 2001

Bios stamp 3.4.758 Wed Dec 12 14:12:18 2001

Plat Bytes 2.0.2

Model Byte 1

Failsafe: --------------LL

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Command executed without error.



4/06/2006 18:33:22 Command: info version

Product: 1 - "Mortie: 1 drive IDE" - Platform Bytes "2.0.2"
Server-3.4.803, Build Date: Jan 15 2003 18:04:34
This is the NON-Debug executable, and was built by KEVIN
You are logged in as user ROOT (local)

[blue68f100]

You need to upgrade to 3.4.805 to get LBA48bit.

[tony]

Hi,

I thought of that.

Is it free to upgrade the software or do you have to pay?

Kind Regards

Tony

[tony]

Every time i try to download somthing from the site i get errors!!!!

like this:
My Adaptec: Error
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ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is Closed.

An error occurred in processing your request. Please return to the previous page and try again.

[tony]

Thankyou to everyone who helped!

especialy to blue68f100!

I now have my 1100 working with a 250gb hard drive!

cool.

[tony]

I have just had a request on how I upgraded my snap server, so thought i might post it to help others out.

How I upgraded a Snap 1100 to a 250Gb drive.
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Step 1 - Take the original hard drive out of the snap server and put it into a linux computer as a slave drive so that it doesn't boot.
Step 2 - The first part of the drive holds the Snap OS (First 26mb), so we will need to copy this, using this command: "*dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/snap.bin count=50000*" (Replace hda1 with the snap drive the name it is detected under linux)
Step 3 - You now have the data that you will need to install any new drive into the Snap server. Thie info is stored in the snap.bin.
Step 4 - Put the new hard drive into the linux computer, make sure that it is compleatly unformatted, without any partitions Now you will need to copy the information back onto this new drive with this command: "*dd if=snap.bin of=/dev/hda1*" (Replace hda1 with the snap drive the name it is detected under linux)
Step 5 - You should now be ready to put the new hard drive back in the Snap server. Once this is done the server should boot normally.
Step 6 - Login to the web control panel on the Snap server once it has booted and navigate to this address: "*http://192.168.0.5/config/debug*" You should see a text box.(The bit in red is the IP of your Snap server)
Step 7 - You will need to run this command to initialise the hard drive: "*config devices format 10000 /reinit*" from the text box in the debug page. This will begin to format your new drive. May take about 10 mins to complete.
Step 8 - The drive should have now completed and you should be able to use the upgraded snap server.
Step 9 - If like me the Snap server is running an old version of the OS, it may only pick the hard drive up as having less space on it than it really has. For example, I upgraded to a 250Gb drive and it only saw it as a 128Gb drive. I had to update the OS and re run step 6 to get it to pick up the full hard drive size. (The OS upgrade is not available for download from Adaptec.)
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[alainm]

I would like to also replace my HD with a 160G but the version i have is 3.4.722, i looked every wher for 3.4.805 but none to be found help is needed.

Alain