fit-IoT Users Forum

Dear Gabriel,

Thank you very much for the information. Yes, I am aware that it voids my warranty and I accept that - the PC just passed its two-year birthday the other day anyway.

Kind regards
-- Jan Holst Jensen

Hi, I have a fit-PC2i which runs just fine. However, BIOS settings are now lost on each reboot which makes reboots a particular pain since Ubuntu 10.04's fsck complains about disk dates being "in the future". (*) The CMOS battery must be dead. I have been able to learn that the CMOS battery is solde...

Bingo! Enter BIOS setup, set Processor Speed to "GV3 only" and reboot. I have now been running the external USB disk at full throttle for two hours without a blip in the log and it is still chucking along.

Thank you so much for this essential tip !

Cheers
-- Jan

Upgraded my kernel to 2.6.28-15. Still seeing resets :-(. This means that I cannot use USB disks. Cannot make backups. Disaster pending - Highly annoying. Can anyone reproduce this ? To stress-test I copy my home directory (some GBs) repeatedly from the internal hard disk to the external USB disk: w...

Hi Mylife. Thanks for the pointer. That was a thing I hadn't tried before. However, I don't seem to have devkit or whatever it's called running on my machine. However, I tried stopping udev before I did the stress-test by running "/etc/init.d/udev stop" but it had no effect - still see the resets. I...

I suspected possible power supply issues because the USB disk that I intended to use for online backup is bus powered - it draws all its power from the USB connection. This morning I therefore mounted another USB disk that has its own power supply. After just 5 minutes of copying files I again see t...

Hi. I bought a fit-PC2 a couple of weeks ago and I am using it as a 24/7 file- and SVN-server which it is perfectly suited for. Initially I ran a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 server (I prefer not having a graphical interface on a server) but the hard disk performance was very poor and the system wou...