Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
But I think the e-vectra has USB support, so you could put a big USBdisk on it. Yes, it has two USB 1.1 ports. I am not sure if transfer speed is sufficient for music collection. The other option is to keep the music files somewhere on the network. Thanks, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
> Get yourself HP e-Vectra Pentium III PC on eBay for less than $100 > can such an old pc have problems with hard disk larger than 127 Mb? According to posts on HP forums, you can put in hard drive bigger than 137GB, but only 137GB will be visible to the OS. I do not know if you can get any software accelerator to go beyond that. I have 80GB hard drive in my e-Vectra and it works great. e-Vectra has no PCI slot and the IDE controller only supports one hard drive. So, if you have a very large music collection, e-Vectra might not be the best option for you. Cheers, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
> > shvejk Wrote: >> Get yourself HP e-Vectra Pentium III PC on eBay for less than $100 >> >> Put in a large 3.5" hard drive to fit your whole music collection. >> >> > [/color] > > can such an old pc have problems with hard disk larger than 127 Mb? > > regards > > Adriano it'll be okay up to a few gigs. You can also add a $30 PCI card to handle the bigger disk. -- Jack Coates At Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture! "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, so across the Western ocean I must wander" - traditional ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
>My laptop has an 80 GB hard disk in it, courtesy of a eBay site in the>states that sold me a slide-in hard disk enclosure, and an 80 GB 2.5">hard disk. That's interesting solution. Is it a PCMCIA device? Does it work with Linux? Can you provide the name or a link to the eBay store? You could also get USB 2.0 PCMCIA card. However, all this cost more then an 'old' desktop with a regular 3.5" ATA drive. So, if this thing is going to sit in a corner and be a dedicated SlimServer PC, then extra cost of a laptop is not justified, in my opinion. Anyway, thanks for sharing the details of your setup. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
>Can you boot Linux headless? I was thinking about a simple solution. First setup everything using monitor and keyboard and then disable keyboard detection in the BIOS boot settings. I guess, for true headless, you could also use a console on serial port. Cheers, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
Michaelwagner wrote: Can you boot Linux headless? I seem to recall a conversation months ago that said not really, because there'd be nowhere to report bootup problems. I think the answer really is "it depends" It is more of a PC thing than a Linux thing, and even then it depends on the distro you are using. I have lots of linux on a KVM, mostly because sometimes I need to see the startup messages. Some BIOS really want to see a keyboard to boot properly. Some have settings to ignore a missing keyboard. We bought a bunch of IBM rackmounted Linux boxes a while back and they don't even have a VGA output for video. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
Keep in mind that any 'old' laptop or pc (including e-Vectra) is likely to support only USB 1.1 Not great if you plan to use external USB drive. I used to run SlimServer 24/7 on Thinkpad T21 for few months. During this time I had to replace the hard disk twice. It could be just bad luck, but I am more happy with the e-Vectra solution myself. >screen & keyboard built in - less clutter there is no need for screen & keyboard when you run SlimServer on Linux Cheers, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Re: Slimserver-ready NSLU2 NAS or better?
Keep in mind that any 'old' laptop or pc (including e-Vectra) is likely to support only USB 1.1 Not great if you plan to use external USB drive. I used to run SlimServer 24/7 on Thinkpad T21 for few months. During this time I had to replace the hard disk twice. It could be just bad luck, but I am more happy with the e-Vectra solution myself. Cheers, ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
