[Rack] Welcome minotaur.noisebridge.net

Ben Kochie ben at nerp.net
Sat Sep 24 00:33:31 UTC 2011


So this mini-itx board is a piece of shit.  When I plug in an external 
SATA drive the board locks up in POST.

I think we're going to need a different box for minotaur.

#1: We could install pony's hardware with Ubuntu and run pony and minotaur 
in VMs.
#2: We could buy/find a more efficient box.

-ben

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Rubin Abdi wrote:

> Ben Kochie wrote, On 2011-09-21 23:18:
>> I tried the mini pcie slot.
>
> For the most part I'm fairly sure that the only boards supporting mSATA
> are modern laptops, and even then I think it's mostly Lenovo, Toshiba
> and Samsung.
>
> You'll want one of these...
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Micro-SATA-Cables-mSATA-Adapter/dp/B004YKJ5TE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316673864&sr=8-1
>
> And micro-SATA is not mSATA.
>
> So I can order one of those now, wait for week shipping and deal with
> mounting that shit, or I can order one of these now and most likely have
> it by Monday or Tuesday...
>
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=cf+cards&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&x=0&y=0#/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=cf+cards+32gb&url=search-alias%3Delectronics&rh=n%3A172282%2Ck%3Acf+cards+32gb
>
> What do you think?
>
> -- 
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
>



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