Thank you, to all those who answered ! I plan to use a mesa board so I am not worried about the parallel Port incompatibilities. I will report to the list what I find about those chinese "clone" 525 motherboards
Bruno On 2/12/14 2:41 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:26:42 +0200 > From: Viesturs L?cis<viesturs.la...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 with RTAI > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID: > <CAKNeY+ep9==clbv4yyo2wnw27co-q8ubzzhum-7_e6g7uzg...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2014-02-12 12:00 GMT+02:00 bruno<br...@tinkerbox.org>: > >> > >> >http://www.aliexpress.com/item/mini-pcs-ITX-Computer-with-Intel-D525-Dual-Core-1-8GHz-2G-RAM-8G-SSD-mini/1316991987.html >> >with 2GBRAM and 8GB SSD, it is a really good price for a dedicated >> >linuxcnc controller I think. >> > > Depending on what hardware for I/O you plan to use, that particular > enclosure case does not seem very nice as it does not have much space for > any pci card, if you are planning to use one. > > >> >Anybody on the list using a D525 based board ? any opinions on those >> >boards are welcome, thanks. >> > > Those boards are really nice, they have low jitter values, I have built > somewhere around 5 machines with them. > I personally have had problems getting the onboard LPT port to work in EPP > mode (tried 3 different boards, success rate was zero) and also increasing > servothread update rate to 2 kHz lead to realtime error messages. > Other than that those are great boards and they still are my choice for > LinuxCNC machines. > > Viesturs > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
