On 6/30/2011 11:22 AM, Neil wrote: > Found this interesting thread... > http://www.linuxcnc.org/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,20/func,view/id,6347/catid,9/limit,6/limitstart,0/lang,english/ > > > > > Quoting Neil<emc_d...@narwani.org>: > >> ... >>>> Viesturs...do you happen to know if the D525MW contains the same BIOS bug? >>> Honestly - I have no idea. Everything works :) That board has Mesa >>> 7i43 attached to LPT port and everything is working out of the box. >>> >>> com >> My question too. Still googling, and have not found anything negative >> about it. > As usual, the posters neglect to tell us vital information, in this case, the BIOS version of their D525MW motherboard. I just checked the Intel site and found the latest BIOS appears to be 0080 dated 4/29/2011. The cumulative release notes suggest a number of fixes related to Linux (re)booting but nothing related to the parallel port.
It's distressing that the BIOS bug relating to the parallel port seems to have persisted over several Atom motherboard design-cycles The first relevant post I saw on communities.intel.com was dated 4/19/2010 and I was the only one to reply to it. We never found a way to whack the appropriate Intel Product Manager upside the head. The managers obviously don't monitor their user site, probably because of the number of nasty-grams that are posted. Somedays I think I should delve into the BIOS and fix it myself. Then I take my meds and come back to earth. Of course, another approach is to use an add-on parallel port card, but they are getting harder to find and it ties up the only motherboard slot. I still think the D525MW remains a good bet for EMC2. Andy is correct that the BIOS bug doesn't matter but some software doesn't know that it doesn't matter :-) Fortunately, EMC 2.4.6 does. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
