Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-31 Thread Todd Zuercher
alton, Ohio 44618 Phone:  (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -Original Message- From: gene heskett Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:08 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Be sure links are safe. On Sunday, January 30,

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-30 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, January 30, 2022 4:47:15 PM EST Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > The difficulty is finding a PCIe parallel port card that does the > Enhanced Parallel Port protocol (EPP) correctly and reliability. > > When I last looked into it, years ago, the situation was terrible: > manufacturers would

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-30 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
The difficulty is finding a PCIe parallel port card that does the Enhanced Parallel Port protocol (EPP) correctly and reliability. When I last looked into it, years ago, the situation was terrible: manufacturers would make parallel port cards with totally different chipsets and behaviors, sold

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-30 Thread Chris Albertson
Is there any disadvantage to placing a PCIe-based Parallel port card on a normal PC? On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:36 AM andy pugh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 18:18, dave engvall wrote: > > > I'm looking for users that are actually using a motherboard with a 7i43 > > and can recommend candida

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-30 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 19:20, Chris Albertson wrote: > I was thinking of using the Ethernet interface Mesa board but then read it > needs a dedicated Ethernet port in the host PC. This means buying, > installing, and configuring an Ethernet card. The PC or any PC today > already has half a d

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-30 Thread andy pugh
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 18:18, dave engvall wrote: > I'm looking for users that are actually using a motherboard with a 7i43 > and can recommend candidate boards from experience. Thanks in advance. I used one for a while with an old Xeon server board, and have one on my Core i5 test machine. I d

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-28 Thread dave engvall
My thinking is that the 7i43 is best used for rt tasks with an EPP port, hence the problem. I should have been more explicit.   The plan is mb -> 7i43 -> 7i42 for stepper-servos. Dave On 1/28/22 11:17 AM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:18 AM dave engvall wrote: hi, I'm lo

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-28 Thread Chris Albertson
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:18 AM dave engvall wrote: > hi, > I'm looking for users that are actually using a motherboard with a 7i43 > and can recommend candidate boards from experience. Thanks in advance. > A related question I have is "Does choice of mainboard matter?" I'd guess if you are us

[Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43

2022-01-28 Thread dave engvall
hi, I'm looking for users that are actually using a motherboard with a 7i43 and can recommend candidate boards from experience. Thanks in advance. Dave ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/li

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-08 Thread Dave Cole
On 7/8/2015 6:20 AM, Marcus Bowman wrote: > On 7 Jul 2015, at 02:30, andy pugh wrote: > >> Can anyone suggest a Mini-ITX motherboard with decent latency and a >> full-size PCI slot? >> >> 12V power input would be nice but not essential. Passively cooled too, >> if possible. >> >> Not being a GA-J18

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-08 Thread Marcus Bowman
On 7 Jul 2015, at 02:30, andy pugh wrote: > Can anyone suggest a Mini-ITX motherboard with decent latency and a > full-size PCI slot? > > 12V power input would be nice but not essential. Passively cooled too, > if possible. > > Not being a GA-J1800N-D2P is also important. Those have a BIOS so p

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-08 Thread Gerhard Pircher
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. Juli 2015 um 23:22 Uhr > Von: "Kirk Wallace" > An: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On 07/07/2015 02:03 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > ... > > I'm also thinking about upgrading the co

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Pete Matos
or perhaps a 5i25 ;) Pete On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > Am 2015-07-07 um 23:10 schrieb andy pugh: > > On 7 July 2015 at 22:03, Gerhard Pircher > wrote: > >> Since the board only has PCIe slots I would need a PCIe to PCI adapter. > > > > The Gigabyte board mentioned

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Am 2015-07-07 um 23:10 schrieb andy pugh: > On 7 July 2015 at 22:03, Gerhard Pircher wrote: >> Since the board only has PCIe slots I would need a PCIe to PCI adapter. > > The Gigabyte board mentioned earlier (J1900M-D3V) has a full-size PCI > slot and the same CPU. Thanks for the info! I just rea

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 7/7/2015 9:05 AM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > I agree the J1800-DH2 is OK once past the F1 BIOS issues (I think I put DOS on > a CF and used a CF-->SATA adapter and had no issues updating from F1 to F2) It > runs linuxcnc fine, has decent RTAI and Preemt-RT latencies and runs as cool > or cooler

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Kirk Wallace
On 07/07/2015 02:03 PM, Gerhard Pircher wrote: ... > I'm also thinking about upgrading the computer for my desktop mill, > which uses servos together with a 5I20 FPGA PCI I/O card. Thus I > wondered, if anyone tried out a ASRock Q1900M board [1] with a Celeron > J1900 four-core onboard CPU (looks l

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2015 at 22:03, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > Since the board only has PCIe slots I would need a PCIe to PCI adapter. The Gigabyte board mentioned earlier (J1900M-D3V) has a full-size PCI slot and the same CPU. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Am 2015-07-07 um 17:05 schrieb Peter C. Wallace: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Dave Cole wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:09:50 -0400 >> From: Dave Cole >> Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" >> >> To: "Enhanced Machine Control

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 July 2015 13:50:04 Bruce Layne wrote: > On 07/07/2015 11:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > It looks good apart from being HDMI not VGA. > > I've had some issues with VFD noise on VGA monitors and I was actually > thinking that I'd like to try HDMI to see if it was more noise immune, > bei

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Billy Huddleston
t. I have a D525 on my Mill with a touch > screen and there I can see some slow behaviour on the display but never > on the machining side. > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Pete Matos" > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Sent: 2015

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Jon Elson
On 07/07/2015 11:38 AM, Pete Matos wrote: > well perhaps I should clarify then that I have the D525 motherboard. I > apologize if I came across as bashing ALL Atom boards. But as I said I do > have these occasional real time errors and the machine DOES work and run > very well for me almost daily

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Bruce Layne
On 07/07/2015 11:08 AM, andy pugh wrote: > It looks good apart from being HDMI not VGA. I've had some issues with VFD noise on VGA monitors and I was actually thinking that I'd like to try HDMI to see if it was more noise immune, being a digital instead of analog interface protocol. Given the

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Pete Matos
n my Mill with a touch > screen and there I can see some slow behaviour on the display but never > on the machining side. > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Pete Matos" > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Sent: 2015-07-07 17:57:31

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
nd there I can see some slow behaviour on the display but never on the machining side. -- Original Message -- From: "Pete Matos" To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-07-07 17:57:31 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? >I can attest to this. Despite

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Pete Matos
> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > > > On Tuesday 07 July 2015 11:05:29 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > >> On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Dave Cole wrote: > >>> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:09:50 -0400 > >>&g

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:22:00 -0400 > From: Gene Heskett > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On Tuesday 07 July 20

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Pete Matos
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:15:14 +0100 > > From: andy pugh > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > > > On 7 July 2015 at 16:

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 07 July 2015 11:05:29 Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Dave Cole wrote: > > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:09:50 -0400 > > From: Dave Cole > > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > > > To: "Enhanced Machin

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, andy pugh wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:15:14 +0100 > From: andy pugh > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On 7 July 2015

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2015 at 16:07, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > I used FreeDOS succesfully, but the F1 BIOS settings are also quite fussy to > get it to boot DOS For me it would boot a version of FreeDOS from the USB stick (the "Odin" floppy image) but that didn't allow the Autoexec.bat file on the USB to run

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
>Any thoughts about this one? > >http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=89#JNF9C-2800 > >It looks good apart from being HDMI not VGA. > >Does anyone know how well HDMI to VGA converters work? Got one last week and did a couple of presentations with it on my laptop with no problems. I will test it on t

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, andy pugh wrote: > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:02:19 +0100 > From: andy pugh > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On 7 Jul

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
Any thoughts about this one? http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=89#JNF9C-2800 It looks good apart from being HDMI not VGA. Does anyone know how well HDMI to VGA converters work? -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ---

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
previous post re resolution >> >> >>== >>== -Original Message- >> From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 07 July 2015 13:52 >> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >> Subject: Re: [Emc-

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Dave Cole wrote: > Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:09:50 -0400 > From: Dave Cole > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On 7/7/2015 9:

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2015 at 15:09, Dave Cole wrote: > The F1 version required a dos boot to reflash it to F2 but the boards > would not support USB Linux with F1 so that was a problem. > If I received an F1 version I would return it. Life's too short. Not just any DOS boot either. FreeDOS won't work (I tr

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
per limit? > > == >== -Original Message- > From: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 July 2015 13:52 > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > On 7 July 2015 at 09:35, Roland Jollivet wrote: > > How much are they?

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
dy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] >Sent: 07 July 2015 13:52 >To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) >Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > >On 7 July 2015 at 09:35, Roland Jollivet >wrote: >> How much are they? (no price on the site(as usual)) >

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
t; >> > >>http://client.mitac.com/products-embedded-board-PD14TI.html > >> > >> > >> > >>-- Original Message -- > >>From: "andy pugh" > >>To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > >> > >>S

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Dave Cole
On 7/7/2015 9:48 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 July 2015 at 14:42, Dave Cole wrote: >> How about a Gigabyte J1900M-D3V ?? > I have decided to never buy another Gigabyte MB as they can't write BIOSes. > I think the F1 version of the J1900 bios was rough, but the boards I have came with F2 and I upd

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2015 at 14:42, Dave Cole wrote: > How about a Gigabyte J1900M-D3V ?? I have decided to never buy another Gigabyte MB as they can't write BIOSes. -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
" To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)'" Sent: 2015-07-07 15:20:03 Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? >Graphics at 800x480 looks like a severe limitation. > >John Prentice > >=

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Dave Cole
How about a Gigabyte J1900M-D3V ?? Amazon UK has them in stock. What was the problem with the J1800? The J1900's had an issue early on with the version 1 bios and Linux. Dave On 7/7/2015 8:51 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 7 July 2015 at 09:35, Roland Jollivet wrote: >> How much are they? (no pr

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread FS
) Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard? On 7 July 2015 at 09:35, Roland Jollivet wrote: > How much are they? (no price on the site(as usual)) http://www.minipc.de/catalog/il/1776 -- atp -- Don't Limit Your Busines

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread andy pugh
On 7 July 2015 at 09:35, Roland Jollivet wrote: > How much are they? (no price on the site(as usual)) http://www.minipc.de/catalog/il/1776 -- atp If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto -

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Marius Liebenberg
d Mitac. It is and Atom based >>board >>and I believe the replacement for the Intel MB's. I use the PD14TI >> >>http://client.mitac.com/products-embedded-board-PD14TI.html >> >> >> >>-- Original Message -- >>From: "andy pugh&q

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
4TI.html > Looks like a nice board, Marius. If it could be found on this side of the pond, expected price? Or EURO's. > > -- Original Message -- > From: "andy pugh" > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Sent: 2015-07-07 03:30

[Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-07 Thread Roland Jollivet
the PD14TI > > http://client.mitac.com/products-embedded-board-PD14TI.html > > > > -- Original Message -- > From: "andy pugh" > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > > Sent: 2015-07-07 03:30:15 > Subject: [Emc-users] Motherboard? > > >Can

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-06 Thread Marius Liebenberg
d Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: 2015-07-07 03:30:15 Subject: [Emc-users] Motherboard? >Can anyone suggest a Mini-ITX motherboard with decent latency and a >full-size PCI slot? > >12V power input would be nice but not essential. Passively cooled too, >if possible. > >

[Emc-users] Motherboard?

2015-07-06 Thread andy pugh
Can anyone suggest a Mini-ITX motherboard with decent latency and a full-size PCI slot? 12V power input would be nice but not essential. Passively cooled too, if possible. Not being a GA-J1800N-D2P is also important. Those have a BIOS so poor that it won't boot DOS to flash a BIOS update --

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard Asus E35M1-M Pro

2013-02-26 Thread fritz
On 02/23/2013 01:54 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: >> Hi Fritz, >> >> thanks for the data point! >> >> It confirms my theory that undeterministic recovery times from powersave >> states are a major (if not the) primary source of latency, and that factor >> is largely operating-system independent sin

[Emc-users] Motherboard Asus E35M1-M Pro (fwd)

2013-02-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
>I've been playing catch up in the archives here, and I thought I might >weigh in with my motherboard latency results. > >This is a motherboard that I initially tried a latency test when I >bought it, and it was very disappointing. However, my reading gave me a >few configuration tweaks that I ha

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard Asus E35M1-M Pro

2013-02-22 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 23.02.2013 um 04:15 schrieb fritz: > I've been playing catch up in the archives here, and I thought I might > weigh in with my motherboard latency results. > > This is a motherboard that I initially tried a latency test when I > bought it, and it was very disappointing. However, my reading

[Emc-users] Motherboard Asus E35M1-M Pro

2013-02-22 Thread fritz
I've been playing catch up in the archives here, and I thought I might weigh in with my motherboard latency results. This is a motherboard that I initially tried a latency test when I bought it, and it was very disappointing. However, my reading gave me a few configuration tweaks that I had no

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-19 Thread John Thornton
I've got 2 D510's and one the cd drive interface suffers from dain bamage and the second one I've done the bios upgrade and it is fine and running 10.04 on my BP. John On 5/18/2012 9:29 AM, Dave Engvall wrote: > Hi all, > > About a year ago I acquired a D510M0. A few days ago I found a 'roundto

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread dave
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:08:59 +0100 andy pugh wrote: > On 18 May 2012 15:29, Dave Engvall wrote: > > > About a year ago I acquired a D510M0. > ... > > After trying many times (insanity) to get the 510 to install > > 10.04/2.5 (live) > > I have a D510MO running 10.04 and 2.5 (and 2.4, and 2.6).

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/5/18 andy pugh : > On 18 May 2012 15:29, Dave Engvall wrote: > >> About a year ago I acquired a D510M0. > ... >> After trying many times (insanity) to get the 510 to install 10.04/2.5 (live) > > I have a D510MO running 10.04 and 2.5 (and 2.4, and 2.6). > > I installed from USB stick. I don't

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 17:50 +0300, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > 2012/5/18 Dave Engvall : > > the ideal board would be something like the D510 with an ide port so I can > > use my CF. > > Lacking the availability of that maybe something like the D525MW would be > > appropriate. > > There are lots of c

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread andy pugh
On 18 May 2012 15:29, Dave Engvall wrote: > About a year ago I acquired a D510M0. ... > After trying many times (insanity) to get the 510 to install 10.04/2.5 (live) I have a D510MO running 10.04 and 2.5 (and 2.4, and 2.6). I installed from USB stick. I don't know if that matters. -- atp If y

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Ray Mitchell
The first thing to do is to go to the Intel site and get the BIOS updates and bring the mobo up to date. I got my D510 about a year ago and I had similar issues, and the update solved he problems. I made entries on the wiki. --Ray M A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth. - E

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/5/18 Dave Engvall : > the ideal board would be something like the D510 with an ide port so I can > use my CF. > Lacking the availability of that maybe something like the D525MW would be > appropriate. There are lots of cheap sata-->cf adapters on ebay. I put it in one of machines I built. T

[Emc-users] motherboard

2012-05-18 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi all, About a year ago I acquired a D510M0. A few days ago I found a 'roundtoit' and started to build a replacement controller for my cinci. The present one is a Duron 1200 running 8.04/2.4.6/7. ;-) Hardware: mini-itx D510M0 2 x 2Gb 800 MHz "patriot" memory sticks (DDR2)

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up, to date

2009-01-14 Thread Kent A. Reed
Gentle persons: Thomas Kaiser wrote: > After I saw the entry with the "Intel D945GCLF2" in the wiki, I decided > to buy the same one. Unfortunately, this board was not available in my > local shop. But the D945GCLF was there (same board with only a "one core > " Atom processor). So, I took this

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All After I saw the entry with the "Intel D945GCLF2" in the wiki, I decided to buy the same one. Unfortunately, this board was not available in my local shop. But the D945GCLF was there (same board with only a "one core " Atom processor). So, I took this one and it looks not so bad: Serv

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Thank you all for the information. I will report back after I got my board. Regards, Thomas -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Sour

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Jon Elson
> Thomas Kaiser wrote: > > >> Hello All >> >> I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. >> I have been using off-lease Dell Optiplex boxes for some time with excellent results. Most of these are working well with the on-mobo video, but one of them does have poor latency. I

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Eric H. Johnson wrote: >Tom, Steve, > >I can report success with the Intel D945GCLF2 mini-ITX Motherboard, at least >so far. I have not installed this board into a production system as yet, >but have used it for testing with the Mesa 5i20 and 7i43 controllers. Unlike

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Tom, Steve, I can report success with the Intel D945GCLF2 mini-ITX Motherboard, at least so far. I have not installed this board into a production system as yet, but have used it for testing with the Mesa 5i20 and 7i43 controllers. Unlike many ITX boards, it does come with a built-in parallel por

Re: [Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Thomas Kaiser wrote: >Hello All > >I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. > > Aren't we all :) >What you guys are using? I checked the WIKI page with the latency >information. For me it looks quite outdated. > > It's got information on machines that people have used. Unfortun

[Emc-users] Motherboard recommendation, WIKI seems not up to date

2009-01-07 Thread Thomas Kaiser
Hello All I am looking for a MB witch is good for running EMC2. What you guys are using? I checked the WIKI page with the latency information. For me it looks quite outdated. I am looking for something reliable and with no moving parts (Fan, HD). Are the new Intel Atoms a good choice? Can anybo

Re: [Emc-users] motherboard

2008-02-21 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:42:56AM -0800, Dave Engvall wrote: > Hi all, > I'm thinking to add a motherboard to my collection. The board I'm > considering has the new AM2 socket, > 2 SATA and only one ATA port, AGP, etc. > > So: > (a) IIRC emc will run in 32 bit mode on the 64 bit processors? Y

[Emc-users] motherboard

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Engvall
Hi all, I'm thinking to add a motherboard to my collection. The board I'm considering has the new AM2 socket, 2 SATA and only one ATA port, AGP, etc. So: (a) IIRC emc will run in 32 bit mode on the 64 bit processors? (b) Can/should one consider compiling for 64 bit mode. (c). will the SATA dr