I was looking for a small, quiet home fileserver with RAID1. A trendy 
embedded NAS device wouldn't do, because (like all of us, right? 
right?!?) I have lots of wacky old computers that I want to netboot, 
etc. So I wanted a regular multipurpose PC, as long as it was small and 
quiet, and I preferred not to have to assemble it myself.

I found it: the PUG Vault [1]. The machine ships with Linux and its 
software RAID. You plug it into a network with DHCP, create a user 
account with the web admin interface, and it works. Very nice for the 
average user.

I added an Intel Pro/1000 in the lone PCI slot and installed NetBSD, 
following Martti Kuparinen's excellent instructions [2]. I haven't 
subjected the machine to heavy load yet, but I soon will. :-)

dmesg follows. Note: onboard Ethernet and audio are disabled in the 
BIOS, but NetBSD detects them just fine. The Ethernet was a 10/100 
vr(4); I don't remember the audio device.

[1] <URL:http://www.pugservers.com/>
[2] <URL:http://www.piuha.net/~martti/bsd/raid/raid.html>

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NetBSD 1.6.2_RC1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Oct 30 18:37:54 EST 2003
 
schmonz@schmonz-pug.home.schmonz.com:/home/schmonz/netbsd/syssrc-1-6/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: IDT Pentium Pro compatible (686-class), 999.55 MHz
cpu0: features 380b035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR>
cpu0: features 380b035<PGE,CMOV,MMX>
cpu0: features 380b035<FXSR,SSE>
total memory = 111 MB
avail memory = 99352 KB
using 1453 buffers containing 5812 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfb210
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: VIA Technologies product 0x3123 (rev. 0x00)
agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xe7000000, size 0xe400000
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0xb091 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: VIA Technologies product 0x3122 (rev. 0x03)
pci_mem_find: void region
pci_mem_find: void region
pci_mem_find: void region
pci_mem_find: void region
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
VIA Technologies VT3606 OHCI IEEE 1394 Controller (Firewire serial bus, 
interface 0x10, revision 0x80) at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured
uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB 
Controller (rev. 0x80)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: VIA Technologie UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB 
Controller (rev. 0x80)
uhci1: interrupting at irq 10
usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: VIA Technologie UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB 
Controller (rev. 0x80)
uhci2: interrupting at irq 5
usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: VIA Technologie UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
VIA Technologies product 0x3104 (USB serial bus, interface 0x20, 
revision 0x82) at pci0 dev 16 function 3 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT8235 (Apollo KT400) PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x00)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1: VIA Technologies VT8235 ATA133 controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD1200BB-00DAA3>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd0: 111 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 234441648 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using 
DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <WDC WD1200BB-00DAA3>
wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
wd1: 111 GB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 234441648 sectors
wd1: 32-bit data port
wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using 
DMA data transfers)
wm0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: Intel i82540EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 2
wm0: interrupting at irq 10
wm0: Ethernet address 00:07:e9:18:8b:c5
makphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 3
makphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask ff65 netmask ff65 ttymask ffe7
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
RAID autoconfigure
Configuring raid0:
RAIDFRAME: protectedSectors is 64
RAIDFRAME: Configure (RAID Level 1): total number of sectors is 
234437376 (114471 MB)
RAIDFRAME(RAID Level 1): Using 6 floating recon bufs with no head sep limit
boot device: raid0
root on raid0a dumps on raid0b
root file system type: ffs