I just recently replaced my server (a venerable Pentium Pro 200) with a MiniITX VIA-based box that is about 25% smaller than my VCR. So far, it has been great. Extremeley quiet (I chose a 600 MHz fanless Eden CPU for nearly all passive cooling) and small enough to fit almost anywhere. My only complaint is that my hdparm performance seems to suck quite badly: # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 seconds = 69.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.53 seconds = 41.83 MB/sec Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. I believe that I have all the correct chipset options (and dmesg output shows it recognizing it in UDMA133 mode. Here is the IDE section of my kernel config: # ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support # CONFIG_IDE=y # # IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y # CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECS is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC is not set CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_FORCED is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA100 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set # CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX is not set # CONFIG_AMD74XX_OVERRIDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIFLEX is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set # CONFIG_HPT34X_AUTODMA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_OLD is not set # CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SVWKS is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y # CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set # CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_SII is not set Is something missing? -Roberto Sanchez
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