you can do a manual override (watch it, may break your current network connection, if so, then reboot):
root@host# # ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full

to what type of hardware is your NIC connected? Is it 100Mbit or 1Gbit? It seems that the advertised speed on the link is 100Mbit, Linux just obeys that.

if there is a /var/log/boot.log, check that. the problem is that changing permissions is usually not logged. What you could do is change the syslog logging verbosity to "debug" but make sure you have enough space in /var/ and see if it is logged then. you can add this to your /etc/syslog.c...

first run "updatedb"
then run "locate hdactl.conf"
you should get the location of the file...

first: are all the drives of the same type (SATA/USB/IDE) or do they differ? If they are of the same type: do you have LVM enabled on your data drives? Also on your OS drives? if not: check for LVM (may also be called device-mapper) support in your current kernel. It should be there by default, but ...

can you post the output of ls -l /dev/null ?

login with ssh (as root or become root) cd / du -kh --max-depth=1 . you'll probably see /var being very large cd /var du -kh --max-depth=1 . you'll probably notice /log being very large you can remove all log files (or just 1 big log file) in /var/log and run "logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf&q...

First of all: welcome! to answer your questions: Amahi is not an OS. Amahi is a superset of applications especially packaged for ease of install and maintenance. It depends on Linux. Preferably Fedora, Ubuntu is in the works. So you could see Amahi as an "application that manages some basic app...

let's add it up: your CPU has a TDP of 45W, but underclocked it's around 20W WD caviar green 2.18W idle, 4.13W write so 3W on average WD caviar blue around 8.5W on average Samsung ecogreen, no hard figures found, estimate 4W on average account for chipset/cpu fan/case fan, maybe another 20W the late...

yup, I have 2 RAID1's in my box (1 2x750G 1 2x1TB). Built summer 2010. Running since then. I have greyhole disabled, I like to manage my storage myself.