Hi Nick,
Soekris net5501 has SATA connector. Another choices would be Mini-ITX
board from VIA or Intel D201GLY2.
Regards,
Punky
Nick L. wrote:
My Alix 3c2 arrived over the weekend, and after getting the SSH login
issue resolved with the help from the list (many thanks) I was able to
get MPD up and running. I have it setup to pull FLAC files from NFS
via my bedroom desktop. I had concerns about the Alix handling large
FLAC audio files, i.e., I was worried about skips, pauses, and clicks.
I am happy to report that none of this has occurred in over six hours
of play time. Internet radio stations are working without issues as
well. The Alix has replaced an old Dell GX110 pentium 3 (found in the
trash) which although was running MPD just fine, it was very audible
(two high pitched whiny fans) when listening to classical music. It
also drew close to 50 watts at idle from the outlet. The Alix is dead
silent and barely breaks 4 watts when attached to a Kill-A-Watt meter.
The FLAC files files are sent out via USB (ALSA snd-usb-audio module)
which in turn feeds a Trends Audio UD-10 USB DAC. This unit can be
used as a stand alone DAC, or it can feed a high quality external DAC
from it's numerous digital outputs: AES/EBU, S/PDIF, TOSLINK. Mine is
feeding an Adcom GDA-700 HDCD dac via AES/EBU. The UD-10 is based on a
PCM 2707 chip which does double duty as a mid-range DAC and USB to
Digital out converter.
I still have to figure out some very minor issues with NFS and
directory permissions though; this being my first time setting up NFS.
Newbie tips for future mailing list archive searches:
1.Untar the voyage tar file as root and not as a regular user, so that
SSH will start properly.
2.Two different 2 gigabyte CF cards (Kingston and Sandisk ultra II)
would not boot at all when fdisked as one single partition. I made a
smaller partition (512MB) and both would boot into grub normally.
3.MPD expects certain configuration files at boot time. I have edited
/etc/mpd.conf so that all the config files are edited and stored on
the NFS server, i.e., playlists, last state file, pid file, log file,
thus minimizing writes to the compact flash. Since the NFS share gets
mounted before MPD starts, this seems to be working out just fine.
On a side note, does anyone know of any minimalist single board
computers, like the Alix, that have at least one SATA port and a power
header for the drive? Something that cold be used as an ultra low
powered file server for a small home network?? PC Engines has stated
they have no plans of offering anything like that anytime soon.
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