Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 on read only chip!?

2007-11-18 Thread rehenry
I've never had a well checked out controller take off on me. Anytime I've had a problem I had done something stupid and found out about it rather quickly. Um, yep but you've got to understand that Jon and Dave are talking only about the software on a properly installed PC. There is a

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 on read only chip!?

2007-11-17 Thread Andrew Ayre
I don't think putting EMC2 in ROM would change much. The software can still be misconfigured. Probably a significant part of the $4,000 is for someone to provide support and make guarantees on performance and uptime, and probably purchase liability insurance for their company. Andy [EMAIL

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 on read only chip!?

2007-11-17 Thread Jon Elson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, question is where is big incentive to use EMC2? One wrong move of machine that ran on EMC2 will cost me between 10 000-400 000!!! Todays parts are very expensive. When I said machine wrong move I meant software got corrupted machine stop or made wrong move

Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 on read only chip!?

2007-11-17 Thread Dave Engvall
Jon et al. Well put! I've been running emc since you had to patch the kernel (0.9 patch , its been so long I can't remember) to get emc to run. Somewhat before the BDI's. I've never had a well checked out controller take off on me. Anytime I've had a problem I had done something stupid and