[plug] server failing with bizarre disk errors

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:08:45AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>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 
 
EPIA M9000 has PXE capability as standard.

> 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).

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