> sympathizing with their captors. When I suggest how easy it'd be to > swap hard drives and install LinuxCNC and use the same hardware,
I need to violently disagree with this. On my setup, swapping drives has been pure hell. With lava and everything. First HDD (80GB IDE) had a DMA bug that caused >10ms latency jitter. -> Unfixable because newer libata doesn't work with hdparm anymore ! Second HDD (4GB IDE): tried copying setup from first HDD, but got tangled in a mess of UUID mismatch and "root not found" errors. -> Had to reinstall from scratch. Third HDD (2TB SATA), brand new, isn't detected by all 3.x linux kernels I've tried (thanks, libata). To add insult to injury, winXP detects it just fine. So I'm back to HDD #2. I'm not going to try to see how much time I've wasted on this. I'm not even done yet. When I recommend linuxCNC (I do), I never, ever mention swapping HDDs. What I do mention is: - incredibly excellent docs compared to Mach - very coherent config (.ini, .hal, .xml : one directory) CSB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
