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Andy,

> o I had to run the install 3 times from the restore CD. It hung a few
> times here and there. I didn't notice that the serial console shows
> the entire install process until the 3rd time I hooked it up and
> everything went smooth that time.

I had it "hang" consistently (though it was after the reboot following a 
flawless installation) but that was a result of having too little memory 
for the boot loader. More memory and a lengthy debugging session with 
Dennis cleared that up.

> o Mine was advertised to have 64 megs of memory but only has 32. The
> installer made a swap partition of 64 megs. I'll probably manually
> install it with a partitioning scheme I like a little better after I
> get more memory.

You should call the seller out on that. Did you ebay it? Send a note to 
the bug that you're going to give him negative feedback unless he 
refunds a portion of the cost or something.

> o If you're ham fisted, think twice about these. I caught my hand on a
> transistor on the top of the CPU board and almost tore it off. It has
> a general feeling of "fragileness".

I don't get a feeling of fragileness at all from mine. Seems kind of 
overengineered to me.

> o I put my finger against the CPU and it was a little bit hot. Are
> there any known CPU heat problems?

No. In fact, the original engineers and customer support folks for the 
Qube 2 used to tell people to simply disconnect the case fan if the unit 
was "too loud". Mine's extremely quiet. (Then again, that was the MIPS 
processor... the Intel might be different... which one do you have?)

> o The power supply is definitely hot. All I did was put in a 14 gig
> IBM drive in place of the stock 6 gig one (which was advertised to be
> 12 gigs).

Yeah, demand some money back. Half the RAM, half the disk? WTF?

> o Disk I/O seems to really work this thing hard. I was doing tar xvzf
> on pkgsrc.tar.gz and it panicked it. Couldn't get a dump, it was
> "locked on itself" in tar.

Sheesh. I've never had mine lock up, and I've even done a kernel build, 
and a Samba compile on it (with the 16MB chip, only, no doubt!). You 
might just want to send the whole thing back and try again with another 
seller. You might have damaged wares.

-chris


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