On 08/29/99 18:48:09 you wrote:
Greetings.
I waded through the "toaster" archives hoping to get a list of vendors which sell parts for EOL'ed toasters but had no such luck.
Specifically, I have an F210 which has 64Mb RAM and one shelf full of 4Gb hard disks. I'd like to upgrade it to the lastest OS release and get some more disk on it. Upgrading will require an additional 64Mb of RAM and for storage I either have to find a storage shelf and some more 4Gb disks, or replace the 4Gb disks I have with 9Gb drives. Since rack space is at a premium, I'd just as soon move to 9Gb disks but cost and availability are likely to be the deciding factors in the end.
Well, I don't have any help to offer on finding old parts, but there may be reasons why you should upgrade to a newer filer anyway.
Was the F210 ever approved to support 9GB drives? (Or for that matter, 128MB memory?) I don't recall. (Is there a maximum disk space limit on the F210?) You should also consider the load on your filer; if doubling the space will support more clients then the low-end F210 may not be able to handle it.
Another thing to keep in mind is in order to move to the larger drives you will have to do something like a backup/restore.
Bruce