From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 16:17:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54E237B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:17:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from eden.barryp.org (host-150-32-220-24.midco.net [24.220.32.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FD443EDC for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:17:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bp@barryp.org) Received: from localhost.barryp.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=barryp.org) by eden.barryp.org with asmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18PXKj-000N8H-00; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:17:37 -0600 Message-ID: <3E03B320.9040306@barryp.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 18:17:36 -0600 From: Barry Pederson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021106 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard References: <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> <20021211164627.G28042@staff.msen.com> <87y96vz5cn.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> <200212201958.gBKJwiC9053383@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SpamTrack: NO 69 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > I clicked into the EPIA 5000, added suitable memory, and the ITX-PV Super Slim > (includes AC power supply) plus adapters in case I want to add a slim HD or > CD in the future. I am quite impressed by the unit. My only complaint is that > the one fan in the case, which is situated next to the power supply, is quite > loud (unncessarily loud since I don't have a hard drive). It's driving about > 10 times the air that is actually needed for the power supply :-). > It looks like a simple matter to replace it with a slow fan, or possibly even > remove it since I do not have a hard drive in the case. Note: this particular case > has no room for the PCI card, even with a riser. I was going for small and figure > I will use USB for any expansion. It does have room for a laptop hardrive and > a slimline CD. I got that same case from iDot.com, and found that a Belkin F5D5000 ethernet card will fit in that case (Realtek chipset I believe) - even lines up correctly with the hole in the back for the RJ45 jack, just have to take the bracket off the card. **BUT** there's a capacitor that sticks out into the harddrive bay and would get in the way of a regular 3.5inch drive. A 2.5inch laptop drive might be ok, no harddrive at all would definitely be ok :) Somebody's who's handy with a soldering iron could maybe flip that capacitor around to the other side of the NIC's PCB, to make it fit with a 3.5" harddisk. (Just to make this FreeBSD-relevant, I can also report that FreeBSD 4.6 recognized that Belkin card OK) Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message