I'm looking at buying a Shuttle or Biostar SFF machine and putting FC2 on it as a file server. I'm looking at one of the older ones that has can use an AMD Athlon or a P4 either one.
I want one with on board video since it is a server I won't be needing 3D and such. But the cheap XPC and iDEQ have graphics I've never heard of such as: S3 Savage8, SiS315, and VIA Unichrome. The ones with Geforce4 MX is about $250. The others start at $166.
Currently, my server is an IBM PC300GL with a Pentium II 450, 100GB IDE, 384MB memory, and a 3Com ISA nic. It's big and bulky. So the thought of a SFF machine to replace this would make it a nicer machine. And if the server turns out nice and works well with FC2, then I might get another one for my desktop which is an aging PIII 650.
So if anyone has any experience with FC2 and any SFF machine please either post to the list or send me email privately, I'd be happy to report what I find back to the list and definitely on my blog at: http://www.jroller.com/page/jmrodri
Sincerely, Jesus Rodriguez
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 19:02, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
I'm looking at buying a Shuttle or Biostar SFF machine and putting FC2 on it as a file server. I'm looking at one of the older ones that has can use an AMD Athlon or a P4 either one.
I want one with on board video since it is a server I won't be needing 3D and such. But the cheap XPC and iDEQ have graphics I've never heard of such as: S3 Savage8, SiS315, and VIA Unichrome. The ones with Geforce4 MX is about $250. The others start at $166.
Currently, my server is an IBM PC300GL with a Pentium II 450, 100GB IDE, 384MB memory, and a 3Com ISA nic. It's big and bulky. So the thought of a SFF machine to replace this would make it a nicer machine. And if the server turns out nice and works well with FC2, then I might get another one for my desktop which is an aging PIII 650.
So if anyone has any experience with FC2 and any SFF machine please either post to the list or send me email privately, I'd be happy to report what I find back to the list and definitely on my blog at: http://www.jroller.com/page/jmrodri
---- I am using several actually...
SN41G - RH 8 (server) SN41G - FC-1 (workstation) E-Cube EG65 - FC-2 (workstation)
Problem with SN41G is the S3 video which doesn't work out of box with FC-1 or RH 8. Perhaps it does with FC-2, I haven't checked. Had to patch with Thomas Wischenhoefer's S3 driver each time XFree86 updates. (not a deal killer but an extra chore).
The E-Cube worked immediately out of the box, networking, video, sound on FC-2
top - 19:21:18 up 16 days, 22:48, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.08 Tasks: 121 total, 1 running, 120 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 5.1% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.6% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 1021012k total, 1013476k used, 7536k free, 44868k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 4532k used, 2035712k free, 579344k cached
hope this helps (I was gonna post the dmesg but that's a bit much)
Craig
Am So, den 01.08.2004 schrieb Jesus M. Rodriguez um 04:02:
I'm looking at buying a Shuttle or Biostar SFF machine and putting FC2 on it as a file server. I'm looking at one of the older ones that has can use an AMD Athlon or a P4 either one.
I want one with on board video ..... So if anyone has any experience with FC2 and any SFF machine please either .....
I use a Shuttle XPC SN86G4 (Athlon 64, xforce3 chipset) which works very fine with FC2 (64 bit as well as 32 bit version). Anaconda successfully detected and configured all hardware components. I don't know about the onboard SIL SATA because I don't use it but I know about several difficulties with SATA in general.
The quality of the case is very good. I was a little bit disappointed about the fan of the heat pipe (too much noise - for me). I replaced it by a pabst model. Another (minor) source of noise is the fan of the power supply. If noise is an issue you should decide for a model with the newer poser supply (2 smaller fans).
Some older (and cheaper) models use mainboards with an ATI chipset which as I was told are not supported by Linux.
It might be a good idea to use a cheap graphics adapter (like Matrox millenium) instead of onboard video. You gain much more flexibility and even the quality of 2d or simple graphic screen is much better in general.
Peter
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