Nausea Medialis

This server is primarily meant for data storage (and hasn't been used for anything else up till now). I would like to host a site on it eventually, but my upload speed isn't up to par. The box runs Arch Linux too - what else did you expect ;-)? This setup has an encrypted /home, which, thanks to a little hacking of the encrypt hook, automounts on boot if the external keyfile is present. The space is divided as follows: 1 GB as a RAID 1 for the OS itself, another 1 GB (of the third HD) is used for /var; the rest of the space (all three disks) is used for /home, in a RAID 5. The box is running a custom kernel, of course :-).

Hardware specifications

• Antec P180 case (lots of space, silent as a whisper)
• AMD Sempron 3000+ (K8, so 64 bit capable)
• 512 MB DDR SD-RAM
• Gigabyte GA-K8NE-RH motherboard (nForce4 based)
• Creative Sound Blaster Live!
• Promise Ultra100 Tx2 IDE adapter
• 200 GB P-ATA HD (3x, in RAID 5)

Setup

AMD Sempron 3000+
To use the Cool 'n' Quiet capabilities of this CPU you need to load the powernow_k8 module, and install cpufreqd, which will pull in cpufreq-utils along with it. Set up both utilities, and add cpufreqd as a daemon.

Miscellaneous
Most, if not all, of the stuff works out of the box, so there's very little to say here. No suspend to RAM or disk, front USB gets enabled by default, so... Move along!

lspci output
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a4)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev b1)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f3)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
01:08.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02)

lsusb output
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Nothing interesting on USB, as you can see ;-).