Low power motherboard for Labview Real-Time

[Morini]

Hi,

It appears that the motherboard you have is not compatible with Labview RT: 

1)  It is best recommended to go with recommended hardware - Serial ATA hard disk, and recommended processor
2)  We cannot recommend another board with a similar hardware what you are looking for, because we cannot guarantee that it will work. There are a lot of four slot motherboards in the market, you can try one of the most common ones like ASUS or Intel.
3) To reconfirm if PCI BIOS support is what is missing in the motherboard , you can use Ubunto (http://www.ubuntu.com/). This is a live Linux CD will post whether PCI BIOS support was found on the boot screen.
4) Also may be contact the manufacturer to confirm it.

If you want to use NI-PCI hardware, maybe you can consider our PXI-solution with 4 or 8 PXI-slots.

Regards

[PGH]

Hi,

I recently bought a 4-pci slot mother board, Supermicro Model PDSBA, and am running Labview on ot it.  But It probably exceeds your power budget.  You might want to talk to Adek Industrial Computers, which is where I got this system.

Peter

[Poussin]

I bought the same card (supermicro PDSBA) but I'm running into problem.

I formatted the SATA hard drive in FAT32 and then formatted the drive with the disk created in MAX.

When I try to start the RT Desktop, I get the following message "Starting LabVIEW RT......      Could not find RT OS on disk..."

In the BIOS, I selected the option "compatible" for SATA drives.

Partition FAT32 - 32Gb

LabVIEW RT 8.2

Can someone help me to find out the root cause of problem ?

Thanks

Nicolas

[Karunya_R]

Nicolas,

Please take a look at this knowledgebase. 

"LabVIEW Real-Time does not support Serial ATA, however the following options may be available depending on the specific desktop PC.

• A Parallel ATA drive can be installed and the Serial ATA controllers can be disabled in the BIOS.
• The BIOS may have the option of setting the Serial ATA controller to a mode making the drive appear to be Parallel ATA. This may referred to with different names such as "PATA", "Legacy", "Compatiblity", or other names. An example of this mode is discussed in section 4.1 of "Intel® 82801EB (ICH5) and Intel® 82801ER (ICH5R) Serial ATA Controller - Programmer’s Reference Man.... Some PC BIOS may not support this mode, such as the Dell Precision 360."

Also ensure that SuperMicro PDSBA has a chipset supported for LabVIEW Real-Time.

[Poussin]

Thanks for your reply.

I went trough this problem.  The problem is that the Pharlap formatting disk is not setting the partition as active.

I had to set up manually by running fdisk from a dos boot disk. and now it boot on it !

But still a problem. The Ethernet chipset on the board is a 82573L. This chipset is supported on LabVIEW 8.5 but I'm using 8.2...

So I disabled the onboard Ethernet with a jumper on the motherboard and insert a PCI card INTEL Pro 100 /S (dual port) with chipset 82550GY; I suppose it's supported since the 82550 is supported. But each time I started the system I get the error "unable to configure the primary network device....".

I also tried with the safemode disk; still the same problem.

By the way, concerning the HD; I formatted this Harddrive with FAT32 format for the partition size of 80Gb. Is this supported or do I have to limit the partition to 32Gb ?

Thanks for your help

Nicolas

[Poussin]

Ok I found out that the Supermicro PDSBA do not include the PCI Bios. It's the reason why the Ethernet PCI card was not seen.

But now I'm using another motherboard. Asus P5MT (PCeval All OK with Intel pro 100 /s).

I install the Lv 8.2 Run time OK

2 DAQMx card in the system + 6534.

I installed the Daqmx drivers 8.2.1 and then I get errors on the screen of the RT

"Flush From cache to disk failed. Data Discard System Error Kernel 4466 LFS error can't flush FAT"

But the PCEval is saying that this computer is compatible.

Any idea ?

I'm using a SATA drive simulated as a PATA.

I already tried with a PATA drive, Same behavior.

This problem occured since I installed the Daqmx.

Thanks for your help

Nicolas

[Karunya_R]

Hi Nicolas,

Have you tried this after installing the latest version of the DAQmx drivers? The latest drivers can be found here.

Please check the readmes for compatibilty before you install the drivers.

[AndyN]

I have a similar problem.

Labview 8.5.1 Dell Optiplex 755 with quad core and gibabit Broadcom Netxtreme as the 2nd NIC. Serial ATA

It passes the evaluation test, works in the safe mode and for normal booting gives " Unable to configure the primary network device"

Broadcom NIC is recognized as BCM 57xx.

I am booting from the USB stick.

Any help is appreciated.