Is There a Known Good Hardware List?

I think that it can simplify your thinking to consider the PC as "The LinuxCNC board" and treat it as just another component. It isn't even one of the expensive ones.

I like to bolt a 12V-supplied Mini-ITX board to a base plate then plug in an 8GB DOM SSD module and RAM then run it off system power. Bolt the interface cards to the same backplate and you have a "CNC Module"

The cable on the DOM is a kludge, I snapped off the connector and had to solder on a short length of SATA cable to rescue the situation, I was glad it wasn't IDE or PATA. Or Ultra-Wide SCSI.

andypugh wrote: The cable on the DOM is a kludge, I snapped off the connector and had to solder on a short length of SATA cable to rescue the situation, I was glad it wasn't IDE or PATA. Or Ultra-Wide SCSI.

LOL, i still have some of those ultra wide SCSI cables and drives here. Want me to mail you some???

Would you mind telling me if it has pci or pcix on.

tommylight wrote:

andypugh wrote: The cable on the DOM is a kludge, I snapped off the connector and had to solder on a short length of SATA cable to rescue the situation, I was glad it wasn't IDE or PATA. Or Ultra-Wide SCSI.

LOL, i still have some of those ultra wide SCSI cables and drives here. Want me to mail you some???

SCSI What on earth is that ? :ohmy:

rodw wrote:

tommylight wrote:

andypugh wrote: The cable on the DOM is a kludge, I snapped off the connector and had to solder on a short length of SATA cable to rescue the situation, I was glad it wasn't IDE or PATA. Or Ultra-Wide SCSI.

LOL, i still have some of those ultra wide SCSI cables and drives here. Want me to mail you some???

SCSI What on earth is that ? :ohmy:

pronounced "skazi", it was HDD controller used in servers and workstations, till SATA became the standard.

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pronounced "skazi", it was HDD controller used in servers and workstations, till SATA became the standard.[/quote]

Ahh yes I remember, some fossil from Adaptec wasn't it?

How could I forget .......

LOL
Yup that was it, it was bloody expensive but fast for that time period.

rodw wrote: [hh yes I remember, some fossil from Adaptec wasn't it? .

Not an Adaptec invention. SCSI was (I have heard) originaly Shugart Computer System Interface

It was used on high-end stuff, and is still used today, though now it is the same command set but serial connection.

emcPT wrote: If you want a stable PC (this year I used it on more than 6 machines):

Motherboard MSI H97M-E35 1
Intel Pentium G3460 3.5GHz 3MB SK1150 (BX80646G3460)
4Gb of RAM

This PC build is quite solid and fast, preforms quite well in linuxcnc.

Does it have a pci or a pcix slot

Andy

I like to bolt a 12V-supplied Mini-ITX board to a base plate then plug in an 8GB DOM SSD module

I have this above but does the DOM require a driver as the linuxcnc iso does not see it a a drive ?