Update:
Well, it appears to be a hardware issue - something about the external drive I'm using. Nothing too unusual - an older 1TB Western Digital Drive, spinning media. I had it laying around as it is a test drive for various and sundry projects. I had reformatted it, tested it, found it to be good, and so used Daphile to install successfully upon it. However, it appears there's something about its connection over USB. Cable? Brand new USB 3.0 Cable from Monoprice - a place I've gotten very fine cables from in the past. The cable otherwise works flawlessly, and I've used it on other devices. The USB controller in the external case? Possibly. The external case is a SansDigital, with eSata, USB 3.0, and FireWire 800 connections on it. I've had it for several years, and it has performed well. The Western Digital drive itself? Maybe, but it checked out in the various and sundry drive tests I put it through. A mystery, to say the least. Anyway... Broke out a spare 32GB SanDisk USB Keychain drive, and used that as the target for a final(test) install of Daphile instead. Installation went off without a hitch, and -VIOLA- - the Dell Mini runs perfectly from it. I have achieved my test goal - I can boot a final(test) installation of Daphile from an external USB drive (the 32GB SanDisk USB Keychain drive), all the clients work from it, the Dell Mini 9 also works as a client for some speakers in the room where it will be deployed, Daphile plays all the music I have loaded onto a USB drive I have connected to the Dell Mini 9 (currently, again using the 1TB Western Digital drive in the SansDigital case), and the Dell Mini 9 can then boot back to its internal PATA SSD and run LXLE if and when it needs to. Next step will be to either perform the installation on the final drive - a recycled 750GB drive that will hold a decent-sized local music library (and will also connect to various network drives as well as the internet - tip of the hat to Triode for his amazing YouTube plugin, along with all the other work he's put in), or clone the working setup from the 32GB SanDisk USB Keychain drive onto the desired final drive. ~~~~~~~~ Final setup will be something like the following: - Dell Mini 9 running as a Daphile Server and client with attached speakers in the kitchen; Daphile and a large music library installed on a repurposed 750GB drive pulled from a 2011 Apple MacBook Pro(upgraded to a SSD; I did the upgrade work for a client and as part of the deal, I kept the drive) installed into an external Iomega case: https://lowendmac.com/2018/review-7-iomega-mac-companion-hard-drive-enclosure/ , https://www.ebay.com/itm/Iomega-USB-2-0-Firewire-400-800-3-5-Hard-drive-HDD-enclosure-case-for-PC-Mac/361235059474?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 [There are some nice things about the Iomega case for this project: it's just large enough to be a very nice base for the Dell Mini 9, it looks attractive, and it's got two additional USB ports on the back of it acting as a hub for additional USB devices - perhaps additional storage? - to be attached. It's only USB 2.0, but then again so is the Dell Mini 9.] - AirPort Express Base Station as a client for speakers in the living room - Primary computer (A Dell Inspiron 3153 running the current version of Elementary OS) running Squeezelite as a client for speakers in the office - PowerBook G3 Wallstreet ( https://lowendmac.com/1998/wallstreet-powerbook-g3-series/ ) running Squeezelite as a client for speakers in the bedroom - AirPort Express Base Station (or some other device I have available to use as a client) for back courtyard speakers - repurposed iPhone 4s (wife's old iPhone) as a remote, running iOS 9 and iPeng This is all replacing an iTunes/Airfoil setup as I switched over all of my work from Mac OS X / MacOS to Linux starting last year. Total cost for the switch - $8.99 USA for iPeng. I had all the hardware available, collected over the years. [Last bit of money Apple will be getting from me, I might add. Then again, they never got very much as most of the hardware was put together from stuff other people threw away. Renew, reuse, recycle...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listen Closely's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=70028 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112819 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
