08-24-2004
I found a "Visara MTX" thinclient at a local computer show. It used a Disk-on-Chip running QNX2.0.
The machine is tiny, about the size of a phonebook directory, has no fans installed, no hard-drive, no floppys. Has a Cyrix 233Mhz o/c to 300mhz CPU.
I tapped into and soldered a connection to the power supply, hooked in a 1GB hard drive. Mounted it onto the top of the case. I disabled the Disk-on-Chip in the bios, added some more RAM.
Added a second ISA network card (has a built-in ethernet)
Added a CD-rom and installed FreeBSD base onto the hard drive I installed. Then removed the CDrom, fired up the hard drive, and finished installing FreeBSD via FTP.
I use it for my IPFW firewall +NAT.
Cost me $30.
I've also used the same machine for a Jukebox.
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave
hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order
the partitions are discovered, and only non-empty, non-extended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
four partitions described in the MBR (the `primary' partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi-
cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions
on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS `primary' partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
mknod(1), chown(1), mount(8), sd(4)
Linux 1992-12-17 HD(4)