[plug] Mini-ITX Systems...

[Trevor Phillips]

On Friday 13 September 2002 15:33, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> >   - Low-noise ATX PSUs (100->200W) - either internal or external.
>
> Looking at that also..

EverythingLinux actually have a quiet PSU - but it's a 300Wer... ^_^
Went to the "JustCooler" website (who made it), but they had some wacky 
navigation that never showed up in Mozilla. ^_^

> >   - IDE Laptop HDDs
>
> Have not had a lot of luck with available 2.5->3.5 HD adaptors having
> reliable sockets for the laptop drives.. Seem to be an intermittent source
> of errors..

Really? How about a custom HD bracket for the laptop drive? If I do end up 
gutting a Sun IPX, there's not enough width for a CD-ROM AND a 3.5 HDD, so 
I'd have to look at customised brackets...

> >   - IDE/Flash drives/adapters
>
> Just finished building my third prototype, with hot-swap.

Cool!

> Prototype 2 has been working on site for over 5 months now.
> Slow to write to and read from these, but I uncompress the
> filesystem from them on the fly into ram and run the entire
> system out of ram. Works a treat. The config section of the

Great! Hmmm. I didn't think that they'd be slow, but now that you mention it, 
a friend's DigiCam is far from fast. It'd have to be faster than floppy, 
though. ^_^ How fast would it be compared to booting off CD (Knoppix style)?

> Currently have a basic system including networking, X 4.2, Wine
> and application software all compressed into separate .tgz's
> fitting into less than 14MB on CF card.

Wow! So a 64MB card would really be overkill. ^_^
(Although probably not once you add Mozilla and Xine?)

> Entire boot, from power button to fully functioning application
> under X is 38 Seconds.

How fast would it be before X? ie; for a text only session?

> Currently this system is running an entire building (Lights/Power/
> Doors and other misc IO) in a WA correctional facility.

Cool.

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