The board arrived yesterday so I dropped it into the box and had it up and running in about an hour. I decided to install Kubuntu 7.10 because I have it running on a couple other machines and I don't want to get into yet another OS/interface for now. Kubuntu discovered all the hardware and loaded drivers with no screwing around.
The cheesy little fan on the CPU occasionally goes into a vibrate mode that is typical of those things, so it will be replaced by a big, slow quiet fan. I used an old 40GB HDD for the OS, and a 250 GB HDD formatted ext2 for the music storage. I had to mess with the drive permissions a little to get access to the 250 GB music drive, and to automount the external USB backup drive from which I loaded the music drive. One thing I haven't figured out yet is why transferring the audio from the USB drive to the 250 GB internal drive ran at only about 15 MBps. The 40 GB OS drive is master and 250 GB music drive is slave on the primary IDE channel. Maybe the USB driver thinks it is a USB 1.0 or USB 2.0 "full speed" interface. Hmmm. The new board seems to be plenty fast enough for running SqueezeCenter. It took about 10 minutes to do a complete rescan of my music library- 680 CDs, 8000 titles. My much faster box takes about 6 minutes. There is no apparent difference between the two machines as far as the Jive remote and SBR/3 operation/speed is concerned. Now I just need to figure out all the BIOS options to get the thing to sleep when not in use and wake up when called upon by the audio system. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43319 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
