chrism at imntv.com wrote: > I've been thinking of using one of these for a home theater head unit. > > http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/products_id/696 > > Was planning to configure it with the following: > > Dual 4gig compact flash cards w/IDE adapters (about $50/each) > Re-use old 3Ware dual port IDE card to make this a bootable RAID0 array > (for speed) Track down ipcop. It's a firewall package, and I believe there is advice about using CF as disk. I think there's a limit to how many times you can write to it, and it might bite you. I prefer the idea of a notepad drive; faster and more duable. > Cheap 2.5" 20gig drive for swap and /var partitions A drive that small is likely slower than newer ones. > Some sort of remote control (haven't sorted this yet) > > The system has hardware mpeg 2/4 acceleration and DVI/Component video > outputs and SPDIF out for audio. It will grab the actual content off a > 2TB array that's hiding in another room via ethernet. On the software > front, I'm looking at Freevo + Centos. I'm hoping to get it all > together for about US$700 in some sort of non-eyesore enclosure for my > AV rack. > > Cheers, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list