Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DOS/EMC aka DeskNCrt now freely available

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the comments. Jon just posted that Adaptec controllers were
OK, so I'll try that first! But yes, I agree, I can pick up IDE drives
cheap enough! And if the BIOS is new enough, then a drive bigger then 1
or 2Gb won't be problem anyway.

Alan KM6VV

Ian Wright wrote:

>
> Alan,
>
> I think the point here is that, although SCSI drives are easily supported by
> linux and hence EMC, they are not included in Paul's BDI CD. This was a
> decision taken to try to reduce the size of the distribution and make
> installation easy for the majority of people who are likely only to have
> straightforward commercial PCs. At the moment, if you want to go along with
> SCSI drives, you will have to build linux and EMC from scratch - still not
> too difficult a job using the pre-patched rtlinux kernels but you would have
> to install a basic complete RedHat 6.0 distribution first. This would set up
> the SCSI disks and you would then have to build the new kernel with SCSI
> support and then install EMC. - Far easier to spend a few dollars on an IDE
> drive and let the BDI do it all!
>
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
> www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Elson" <jmelson@...>
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> Sent: 02 April 2001 07:43
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] DOS/EMC aka DeskNCrt now freely available
>
> >
> >
> > Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Tim,
> > >
> > > I also have 180 Mhz Pentium that would be available NOW. SCSI drives,
> > > funny Viper video controller card. I'll be "emptying" the drives,
> > > unless it's just better to use an IDE?
> >
> > SCSI works FINE! I have used Adaptec and BusLogic SCSI controllers
> > with no trouble at all.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
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