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
