Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-30 Thread Andy Ibbotson
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems My old recommendation stands, install OS on another computer and then move the disk. i On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I did that, otherwise I would not have booted from usb flash drive, would I? I

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/8/26 Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com: Andy, There is no reason why you cannot connect a Sata or USB CDROM drive to your system, install the OS and then remove the CDROM drive. Get the latest EMC2 live CD and boot the system off the CDROM drive, then have it load the system right off the live

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2010/8/26 Andy Pugh a...@andypugh.fsnet.co.uk: On 26 August 2010 22:08, Andy Ibbotson andyi_w...@btinternet.com wrote: I have a question re. systems built around mini ITX motherboards.  What I have in mind is to build a system using the Intel D510MO motherboard (good choice re. latency?),

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-27 Thread Lester Caine
Viesturs Lācis wrote: But the idea itself is very nice - attach dvd drive, install system and then remove the drive to save space. I have an old internal drive and cable with it's own power supply just for that job ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact -

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-27 Thread Dave
Make sure that in the BIOS that you have enable boot from USB device set and it is in your boot device list. Otherwise it definitely will not work. Hard to beat CDROM/DVD drives for loading up an OS quickly. Dave On 8/27/2010 5:12 AM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2010/8/26 Davee...@dc9.tzo.com:

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-27 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Well, I did that, otherwise I would not have booted from usb flash drive, would I? I spent pretty long time trying to figure out, if there is something in the BIOS that I should check/uncheck, but no luck. But it works with my laptop. Unfortunately all my remaining PCs are old enough so that there

[Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-26 Thread Andy Ibbotson
Hello Everyone, I have a question re. systems built around mini ITX motherboards. What I have in mind is to build a system using the Intel D510MO motherboard (good choice re. latency?), picoPSU, solid state SATA disk. I want to minimise the size of the computer so no CD / DVD drives, my

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-26 Thread Igor Chudov
You can install Linux on your hard on another computer and then move your hard drive to this motherboard. Should work great. i On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Andy Ibbotson andyi_w...@btinternet.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a question re. systems built around mini ITX motherboards.  What

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-26 Thread Viesturs Lācis
Install Ubuntu (just basic installation of Hardy or Lucid) from usb-flash and then connect to internet and install EMC with a script - it will install also all the RTAI packages and everything else necessary for EMC. That is how I did on my D510MO based PC. /vie 2010/8/27 Andy Ibbotson

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems.

2010-08-26 Thread Speaker To-Dirt
at some posts last week we had some informative back and forth with links on this very subject. Andrew Message: 6 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:08:02 +0100 From: Andy Ibbotson andyi_w...@btinternet.com Subject: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-26 Thread Dave
Andy, There is no reason why you cannot connect a Sata or USB CDROM drive to your system, install the OS and then remove the CDROM drive. Get the latest EMC2 live CD and boot the system off the CDROM drive, then have it load the system right off the live CD. You can't get any simpler than

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems

2010-08-26 Thread Andy Pugh
On 26 August 2010 22:08, Andy Ibbotson andyi_w...@btinternet.com wrote: I have a question re. systems built around mini ITX motherboards.  What I have in mind is to build a system using the Intel D510MO motherboard (good choice re. latency?), picoPSU, solid state SATA disk.  I want to

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems.

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Homann
, 26 Aug 2010 22:08:02 +0100 From: Andy Ibbotson andyi_w...@btinternet.com Subject: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: af3523a7303846fc9b25ca56960ec...@eeepc Content-Type: text/plain;    charset=iso-8859-1 Hello Everyone, I have a question re. systems

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems.

2010-08-26 Thread sam sokolik
week we had some informative back and forth with links on this very subject. Andrew Message: 6 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:08:02 +0100 From: Andy Ibbotsonandyi_w...@btinternet.com Subject: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems To:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems.

2010-08-26 Thread kurniadi
Ibbotsonandyi_w...@btinternet.com Subject: [Emc-users] Mini ITX systems To:emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID:af3523a7303846fc9b25ca56960ec...@eeepc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello Everyone, I have a question re. systems built around mini ITX motherboards.  What I

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Speaker To-Dirt
Igor: What model did you get? I was looking at this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131396cm_re=Intel_D945GCLF2-_-13-131-396-_-Product Based on the numbers given here. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Latency-Test I noted these numbers Intel

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Igor Chudov
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Speaker To-Dirt speaker_2_d...@yahoo.com wrote: Igor:   What model did you get? I was looking at this one. I assembled my own: Intel BOXDG41MJ LGA 775 Intel G41 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard Item #: N82E16813121381 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Viesturs Lācis
I have Intel D510MO Mini-ITX board with built-on dual-core Atom D510 1,6 GHz, 2GB RAM and 4GB CF card as a HDD. Max jitter for 1.0 ms servo thread is 7316 ns Max jitter for 25.0 us base thread is 8706 ns And it all is fitted in a selfmade case so that I can put it inside the control cabinet next

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Andy Pugh
On 20 August 2010 19:17, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: I have Intel D510MO Mini-ITX board with built-on dual-core Atom D510 Another vote for that board. Runs 10.04 and 2.4.1 nicely. It was cheap and is tiny. (also silent as it seems happy completely passively cooled with an 8GB

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Dave
Intel has discontinued the D945GCLF boards.. but a number of other board makers are still making Atom 330 based boards. The D510 board works well as does the Jetway D510 based board. Hard to beat for the price.. Dave On 8/20/2010 1:33 PM, Speaker To-Dirt wrote: Igor: What model did

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Dave
I've also had good luck running EMC2 on LGA boards equipped with the Intel Celeron E3300 which I believe is sort of a cheap Core 2 Duo. In fact I have taken a hard drive setup to run EMC2 with Ubuntu 10.04 on a Atom 330 board and plugged it into a Celeron E3300 system and it boots right up.

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Igor Chudov
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: 1 Gig seems to be plenty to run EMC2 on.   I have never seen memory usage go much above a couple hundred megs. I like to run all kinds of other things, like browser, XEmacs, terminals, etc.

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Dave
Sure.. I just wanted to let you know that 1 gig wouldn't keep you from running EMC2. I oftentimes just put 2 gigs into each system also as memory is cheap. Dave On 8/20/2010 3:33 PM, Igor Chudov wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Davee...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: 1 Gig seems to be

Re: [Emc-users] Mini ITX Systems.

2010-08-20 Thread Igor Chudov
My current system has 512 MB. It works OK. i On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Igor Chudov ichu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com wrote: 1 Gig seems to be plenty to run EMC2 on.   I have never seen memory usage go much above a couple hundred megs. I