Media PC

See also New PC.

Storage

Current

Drives

sda	300 GB Maxtor 6V300F0
sdc	1000 GB Seagate
sdb	500 GB WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0
sde	500 GB Maxtor 7H500F0 external

Partitions

sda1	250G	raid5 md0
sda2	40G	VMs
sda3	210G	unused
sdb1	250G	raid5 md0
sdb2	20G	boot/root
sdb3	30G	unused
sdc1	250G	raid5 md0
sdc2	50G	unused
sdc3	700G	unused
sde1	500G	backup

New

Drives

sda	500 GB WDC WD5000KS-00MNB0
sdb	300 GB Maxtor 6V300F0
sdc	500 GB Maxtor 7H500F0
sdd	1000 GB Seagate external

Partitions

sda1	300GB	md0
sda2	200GB	boot/root
sdb1	300GB	md0
sdc1	300GB	md0
sdc2	200GB	swap/spare
sde1	1TB	backup/working

Steps to configure Linux system with RAID drive

1. repartition 500GB_max to 300GB+200GB
2. backup critical files to 200GB
3. break 1T's 250MB volume out of md0
4. partition 1TB to 600+400gb
5. copy md0's data to 1TB
6. make 1TB external, 500MB_max internal
7. reinstall OS
8. repartition md0
9. copy files back

Comments on RAID

Using RAID 5 is more complex, but when a drive fails (as did the ST31000340AS) under warranty, sending it back has no data security risk.

External

• Maxtor 200 GB - media
• Maxtor 500 GB - backups

50 GB free (June 24/2008). est. 100 GB RAID can be cleared up, 200GB moved external.

NCQ performance on Seagate 7200.11 - http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=26006

The problem with the above config is the array is spread across all working drives, so there can't be fast directory to directory copies. Solution is to move to something like this:

500 + 500 raid1 300gb boot + working/media external 1tb 500gb backup + 500gb working/media

Video

NVidia En7300GT silent - died

see system board

System board

Gigabyte e7-aum-ds2h (NVIDIA GeForce 9400 chipset)

Etc

• Antec nsk2400
• Asus P5B-VM
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
• 4 X 1 GB ?? DDR-2 RAM

Linux Multimedia

Audio

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/DigitalOut

Audio

Need 7.1 digital (optical) audio pass-through capability

 wii    dvd    etc
  |      |      |
[    52xv540u tv   ]
         |
         |  toslink w/ dolby digital 7.1
         |
   [ computer ]
         |
         | toslink w/ dolby digital 7.1
         |
       [amp]
         |
      speakers

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dolby_Digital_and_DTS

http://alsa.opensrc.org/DigitalOut