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I totally agree

We had a power cut last night so bubba will have been shut down without warning. It seems fine right now but what can I check to make sure nothing bad happened?

In advance of posts by wiser users... 1) I don't know 2) It may be possible to have bubba monitor itself and, when activity drops below a certain level, power down. A more elegant way may be to power down the HDD after a period of no access. Bubba comes set to run it continually. This setting can be...

The 320GB drive that came with my bubba takes about 27 minutes to format. The front LED blinks throughput. Don't know about the HDD's own drive.

I'd give it a half hour if I were you. When the light's on steady, it's done.

1) A delay of 2-3 seconds, once there you can move through artists as fast as you say.

2) Momentary delay; less than a second

Best Regards

Adrian

Here are some performance tests: Hardware Bubba, 128MB, 320GB HDD Network is 'g', SlimServer is running on bubba delivering the web interface to a wireless, reasonably specced laptop running Firefox. Bubba will be the bottleneck, I think. Library Statistics Music library contains 655 albums with 878...

This Duet looks good. Essentially it seems to move the display of the current Squeezebox to the remote, greatly enhancing it in the meantime and adds features like ability to control multiple 'receivers'. I would love this, I could put my Squeezebox upstairs and have this in the living room. However...

Good question

I use the bubba mainly for serving files to Windows through Samba. While bubba itself may be reasonably secure, Windows isn't and it would be nice to add a bit more security.

Hmm, panic appears to be over. A new update of samba was available tonight, version 3.0.14a-Debian. The 'missing' files are visible again.

Using Samba on bubba, many but not all of my shared files and folders are suddenly invisible to Windows. The problem affects many directories but not all files in any particular directory. The files aren't hidden as far as Windows knows the term and Explorer is set to show all hidden files/folders a...

1. I don't know much about ethernet by plugs. If they give the required speed, fair enough. A better network configuration may be to have all your documents held on the bubba, which will always be on, and shared through Samba. This way any PC will be able to access them whether or not other PCs are ...

neilg wrote:I notice that the Bubba's hard disk keeps going after the upload is finished.

The bubba's disk doesn't spin down by default. The designers reckon that this is better than it spinning down on a timer then powering up on network activity. Starts and stops wear it out more than continuous running.

OK, so far, so good... From the minimal install, I ran fsck on bubba's hard drive. There were errors but they were corrected. I rebooted bubba but, even after running overnight, it was still sitting with the LED flashing but this time with the HDD light off. I mounted bubba's hard drive so I can see...

Thanks Johannes. I will wait a while longer then try the minimum boot if necessary - that won't erase data, will it?

Green LED on front is blinking slowly. Red light through vents is on and flickering - I take that to mean there is disk activity. If I power down, when bubba restarts will it still want to do fsck and, if it does and hangs (waiting for user intervention that I cannot give it), how can I restart it w...