Yup, mine has FC bios as well. Great little board and cheap and one of the few with a parallel port. You're not wrong about Mesa, a tad under A$400 for the 5i25 with 7i76 which is why I built this machine and am getting my PMDX126 working fully.
Strange thing though I am get realtime errors at the moment, I suspect it may be the wireless network card. Going to pull that out to see if it is the issue.
I have to do that, I have an old Open824 router that I should setup in the garage and remove the need for wireless. Still getting RT errors though, might have to rebuild again.
racedirector wrote: All installed with the latest debian iso (2.7). bios tweaked to turn everything off that didn't need to be there and this is the result of the latency test. In this shot this stuff has been running for 8 hours after beating the machine up and going to bed. Best I have EVER had out of a PC for LinuxCNC
What did you turn off? I can't find anything to turn off...
