On Thursday 16 April 2015 16:28:15 Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/16/2015 04:01 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 04/16/2015 11:19 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> ... I discovered the atom based box for <$300 which are > >> great for a one stop solution for the machinery controls. So this > >> phenom box was my last real build, 8 years (nominally) ago. > > > > Please tell us about your Atom box(es). (I've been eyeballing the > > D2500CC for IPCop.) > > > > > > What machinery? > > Gene has a special install for his CNC setup, with a RTAI kernel. To > me, ole Gene needs one machine dedicated to that and offload desktop > stuff to another standard install. > Actually Ric, ole Gene has two machines dedicated to running the machinery and this is the one size fits all box. But I have to keep it close enough kernelwise that it can run the LCNC simulator version in userspace. So I can sit here in air conditioned comfort, write G-Code to do a job, and exersize that code on this machine, cutting electronic air. When I am happy it works, then load it on the real machinery and make $400 worth of Mahogany and other considerably pricier stuff for trim, into a blanket chest that I sent a pix of to my youngest, who took a printout to work, and his co-workers all pronounced it to be "Wood Porn" ;-) I can't help it if they are buying their furniture from IKEA.
> Gene, regarding harddrive problems, check this out: > http://www.sj-vs.net/forcing-a-hard-disk-to-reallocate-bad-sectors/ > I had one bad sector that gave everything else fits. This fixed it! > Scared me to do it, but nothing blew up on reboot. Just a thought. Ric Today they will do that automatically, from a pool of sectors reserved for that as they are made. You will not receive a notice that it has happened until te drive is out of spare sectors. I did have a file that reserved all the bad sectors on an original ST-238 on one of my coco's 25 years ago. I figured that when I got to the 40th, I had only 8 slots left in the file descriptor and bought a maxtor 7120s & a scsi interface. End of that "problem". :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504162107.17521.ghesk...@wdtv.com
