[Soekris] hard disk & wifi card

[Tor Bendiksen]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:20:59 -0600, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ryan wrote:
>> Does the standard case offer enough space for a 2.5" hard drive & a wifi
>> card? Sorry if this is a "duh" sort of question, but after searching the
>> archives I couldn't find anything to answer it.
>>
> Ive got a belkin PCI wifi card (with ndiswrapper).
> no HD, but theres a $10 mounting kit which suspends it over the board.
> Dunno what happens if you also use a mini-pci, its close to interfering
> with the HD mount
> 
> Ive ccd the ML, since somebodys probly done it, or tried.

There is enough space, but as mentioned in another post you may have problems
with heat. 

I had a 200mW mini-PCI card and a 20GB standard IBM drive in the case. 
The drive would simply shut down at a certain temperature, and the box would 
crash. I have since taken the wifi card out, and just use this as a firewall. 
Not what I had originally planned, but it works. 

I suspect it may have worked *a bit* better if I had made some holes for air
to circulate, but since this was a purely personal "proof-of-concept" I was 
not too bothered. YMMV.

-- 
Tor Bendiksen