From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7de08d6a41dcbce8bc1875b4e4b04962@tombob.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti wrarena i/o errors Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:41:30 +0000 From: Robert Raschke In-Reply-To: <1af3e8990ca4bea9386ec80e612d0461@tombob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15000b90-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, just wanted to wind down this thread with my latest findings. It turns out that some of the VIA EPIA boards have issues with DMA in general. If you dig in the viarena forums, you'll come across a multitude of problems around streaming, DVD access, hard disk access, etc. I have now had difficulties not just with putting Plan 9 on them, but also Free BSD. Since I only paid ~$15 for the board, and I don't have the time and energy to pursue the issues, I'm binning the board and will investigate alternatives for a fanless setup at my leisure. Looks like I'll have to live with fan noise a little longer. Now, if anyone knows of reliable, allowed to be slow, preferably cheap components I could use to set up a fanless Plan 9 box, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Robby -- It's r.raschke instead of rrplan9 for mail.