Kent A. Reed wrote: > > > You neglected to mention that this board includes one PATA port in > addition to 2 SATA ports, which covers one of Gene's wants. It DOES? I totally missed that! > Have you done any benchmarking on this board? latency test? I don't have one. My partner in this project may be ordering one soon, I'm not sure. I am pretty sure it will have NO trouble doing what we want it to do, which will be a very low load. Running a servo-configured machine with the Touchy interface, ie. no 3-D preview, and no base_thread for software step generation. This kind of stuff used to run on a 100 MHz Pentium classic with 32 MB of memory. > I can't find this particular board for less than apx 100USD right now, > while I can get the D410MO for apx 75USD. Since I already have a power > supply on hand, I don't see the need to spend more for this board. At > the same time, I have a mobile-robot project in mind for my grandkids > where it might be a contender. I seem to recall that even with the > redesigned 945GSE chipset, comparable CPUs still consume more power than > the integrated CPU solution. If you haven't seen the Beagle Board, you should look into it. The Atom boards still come in about 20 W, the Beagle, WITH memory, SD card for "hard drive" etc. runs a guaranteed max of 3W. It has USB, one serial port, XDVI and some GPIO pins brought out. Runs Linux quite nicely. We would have used it on this project, but RTAI is not ready yet, so it can't run EMC2. It is a real contender for battery-powered things.
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