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

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!

OOps! You are absolutely right! So, SCSI will work fine for a full
install of Red Hat or other standard Linux CD install, but not for the
BDI CD, which is very stripped down. Thanks for correcting the wrong
info I gave out, here.

Jon