On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV > > frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down > > the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't > > need much space so I probably bought the smallest thing I could find 4 > > years ago when I first built them. > > I've given up on hard drives for MythTV frontends, too much noise, heat, > power and space. I tried flash storage for a while but now network boot. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
On these Pundit-R machines I tried to get network booting working but never did. Actually that whole idea still eludes me. I did spin the drives down to reduce noise as these old 8GB drives are actually *very* noisy and it's a really ugly high-pitched whine. The worst part of noise from these little boxes now turns out to be the processor fan and since it's a non-standard form factor I haven't found a quiet fan to do a replacement. - Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
