Eduardo, EMC will not work with hardware such as the Galil controller because EMC needs to directly handle the real-time control, including I/O, stepper pulse generation, closed loop servo control, etc. The Galil controller, OTOH wants to handle the real time control to offload it from non-real time operating systems such as Windows, and does not expose a low level interface as needed by EMC. Additionally, the Galil controller is fairly expensive (relative to the hardware typically used with EMC) because it has a lot of on board intelligence and features, however EMC has no means for taking advantage of these features.
If you want to use EMC, the best approach would be to use any of the currently supported hardware, a list of which can be found here: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware Regards, Eric Anyone using EMC with Galil DMC40xx series controllers ? I'm building a five axis mill and would like to use EMC with Galil's DMC 4080. Any info will be helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
