I have had a similar problem booting from CD / DVD drives. In the end I booted from a USB memory stick - this worked well. I've now installed Ubuntu 10. distro with EMC 2.4.5. Checking DMESG output for parallel port info. I see only partport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP]. I've turned off hyperthreading, set the port to EPP in BIOS and have ISOLCPUS=1 in my GRUB config file. System seems to work well with latencies of around 6000 ns on the base thread. I have tested EMC using a .ini file base period of 20000ns - all seems well and much better than my old AMD based motherboard. At present I'm waiting for my 7i43 card to arrive and so I am interested to see what happens with the parallel port issue. It seems that is can be forced to EPP mode however, Ubuntu should detect the available modes - a bug? Andy Ibbotson
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Steve Blackmore" <st...@pilotltd.net> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 2:21 PM To: "EMC2-Users-List" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] More Intel D510 strangeness? > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:28:15 -0400, you wrote: > >>The circumstances you describe are strange---the problematic CD installs >>on other machines and other CDs install on the machine in question. If I >>were there I'd be applying the tried-and-true "brute force and >>ignorance" approach I learned on my uncle's farm. >> >>By the way, I don't remember whether you told us how your CD-drive is >>interfaced---IDE/PATA, SATA, USB? > > Both the drives I tried were SATA DVD writers, one an LG slimline (which > is installed in the case the motherboard is now in, and the other a HP > one borrowed out of one of our new servers :) > > It read the drive initially, loads the first splash screen and just > stops and never progresses further. > > If you press enter at that point it goes to the options screen, > selecting any of the displayed options does nothing. > > Got to be something different in the EMC distro cd than the official > ubuntu cd that prevents it loading the operating system fully via SATA > cd/dvd. > > Steve Blackmore > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America > contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in > marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
