REFLECTOR: New Collection and Control Hardware

[Brett Ferrell]

Alex,

I'm not a Linux guy, so I'm sending this only out of the hope that it's helpful,
I don't know anything about it really, but it sounds like what you might want.

"Win4Lin, Inc., a leading supplier of virtual operating systems on Linux, today
announced the release of their Win4Lin Pro(TM) product which runs Windows 2000
and Windows XP applications on Linux. Win4Lin Pro becomes the flagship of the
company's Win4Lin product family, which also includes Win4Lin 9X(TM), Win4Lin
Terminal Server(TM) and Win4Lin(TM) Home. Win4Lin, Inc. recently acquired the
assets of NeTraverse, Inc., the original developers of Win4Lin products, and is
ambitiously extending the product family."

http://tinyurl.com/mqxwq

(real address)
http://osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3579&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Brett


Quoting Alex Balic <alex157 at pwhome.com>:

> Brian- about the HDD- do you think no matter how rugged it is it might crash
> without sufficient (designed for) air pressure to float the heads- that has
> been my concern, not random failure, but head crash. Although, I suppose
> that airliners pressurize to 8000 feet or something, so they work at that
> altitude anyway, just with a turbo, I plan to get up as high as possible,
> and will probably have trouble with the disk.
>  Have spoken to some Linux guys, no one seems to be able to help really, and
> the E-mon program will not work with Linux either, nor can I find any sort
> of alternate industrial monitoring app written in Linux so I guess I am back
> to trying to get XP on the CF card..... somehow, I was under the impression,
> that Linux would run XP programs, maybe that was W98 programs......
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
> Behalf Of Brian Michalk
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 1:46 PM
> To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
> Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: New Collection and Control Hardware
>
> One thing you may want to do is install a Linux with read only access to
> the card.  It will help in two ways.  First, you'll wear out the CF if
> it's read write.  This seems to be getting better all the time as CF
> technology progresses.  Second, and more important is that it can't get
> corrupted by power glitches taking down the machine.  Mount a /var and
> /tmp partitions in ramdisk so the system functions like normal.  There
> are a few tutorials on the net how to do this.  Snoop around the MP3
> modders that put these Linux machines in their cars.  Lot's of good info
> there that translates directly to our application.  I don't know how to
> do this in Windows.
>
> I've got two computers.  The Linux machine is an industrial embedded
> board from Advantech with a healthy power supply.  The Windows machine
> is for entertainment and other miscellaneous non-critical stuff.  It's a
> 1GHz EPIA board that runs about 10 watts.  It's got a ruggedized laptop
> disk drive.  For drives, I've found the best predictor of performance to
> be a warranty.  If you buy a drive with a five year warranty you'll be
> in good shape.
>
> As far as helping out?  Well, I've got my hands full getting all of my
> stuff talking right now, but I can offer advice wherever I can.
>
> I've also got the PC-flight systems gyro.  They do provide the serial
> protocol.  It's connected to the Linux machine where that data will be
> offered on the SMBUS or LAN.  I intend to couple that to my autopilot.
> I searched hard and long for an electric mechanical gyro with autopilot
> output, but couldn't find one I felt was reliable or one that I could
> afford.
>
> Alex Balic wrote:
> > Hey Brian-
> > I have a laptop in My XLRG connected to a 7" touch screen display- wanted
> to
> > possibly run Linux on there off of a 2GB CF card- to display engine
> > parameters for my Subaru- I am no computer genius, so now just have a
> > disassembled laptop that will put XP desktop up on the touch screen,
> running
> > from HDD but probably not enough room to install anything else to go to
> the
> > CF card- do you think you could lend a hand? Was going to use the PC
> flight
> > systems E-mon program, but would not be adverse to anything else that can
> do
> > the same thing.......
> >
> > Alex
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