[plug] server failing with bizarre disk errors

[Craig Ringer]

>> Speaking of hardware, I read an article on page 62 of APCMag about the 
>> VIA EPIA M9000 Minit-ITX mobo.
>>
>> Everything on board, apparently works with Linux, sure you can't load 
>> it  up to the eyeballs but that's not the idea of it.
>>
>> $349 AUD for the mobo, buy a well ventialted case and the other usual 
>> parts and it'd be a good little server !
>>
>>
> Maybe for home use, but I'd laugh if I saw someone seriously using one 
> of those for business purposes....

For business /servers/ . Think thin client. Get something like that or a 
Shuttle (small, no disk, quiet/no fan, etc), add a bootrom or 2mb of ATA 
flash, and off you go. Given that a P100 on 10M half duplex makes an 
adequte thin client (a bit slow at 1024x768 16bit though) a bunch of 
those would be a dream. When I netboot my P900 laptop, its easy to 
forget that I'm not sitting at the dual xeon server - even when booted 
with mem=24M (of 384).

Craig Ringer