Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Jon Elson
Peter C. Wallace wrote: I wasted 2 days fscking around with those cards (NetMos = MOSChip 9805 based) I had no trouble getting them into EPP mode, they just dont work right in EPP mode. I got write to work but they seem to sample the read data on the leading edge of the strobe, this is

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter C. Wallace wrote: I wasted 2 days fscking around with those cards (NetMos = MOSChip 9805 based) I had no trouble getting them into EPP mode, they just dont work right in EPP mode. I got write to work but they seem to sample the read data

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: With the 9805, I can see that the strobe ends in response to my wait signal, but the data is sampled somewhere around the falling (leading) edge of the strobe. I thought about an error caused by the port seeing /wait asserted too early so even tried putting a fair

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter C. Wallace wrote: With the 9805, I can see that the strobe ends in response to my wait signal, but the data is sampled somewhere around the falling (leading) edge of the strobe. I thought about an error caused by the port seeing

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Jon Elson
Peter C. Wallace wrote: With the 9805, I can see that the strobe ends in response to my wait signal, but the data is sampled somewhere around the falling (leading) edge of the strobe. I thought about an error caused by the port seeing /wait asserted too early so even tried putting a fair

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Jon Elson
Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I signed up for an account at MosChip.com, after that they let me see their docs. Their FAQ for the 9805 says this: MosChip 9805 FAQ: An additional problem exists with EPP Mode. We have identified a timing problem in the chip that affects reading data from

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-10 Thread Peter C. Wallace
error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter C. Wallace wrote: With the 9805, I can see that the strobe ends in response to my wait signal, but the data is sampled somewhere around the falling (leading) edge of the strobe. I thought about an error caused by the port seeing /wait asserted too

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-09 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Peter, That is good news, at least as far as finding a problem and having a probable solution. What do I need to do from here? Please feel free to contact me off list. BTW, regarding the EMC 2.3.7 + 7i43... thread, I also have a box with a VIA mini-ITX motherboard

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter, That is good news, at least as far as finding a problem and having a probable solution. What do I need to do from here? Please feel free to contact me off list. OK overnight with 1 foot cable, no errors = 24 billion EPP operations error

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-09 Thread Jon Elson
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter, That is good news, at least as far as finding a problem and having a probable solution. What do I need to do from here? Please feel free to contact me off list. OK overnight with 1 foot cable, no errors

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-09 Thread Peter C. Wallace
error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board NetMos cards that do _not_ work. They dont sample read data on the correct strobe edge so would be almost impossible to make work with HostMot2 (that has read-side effects). They may be fine for bit I/O but they suck for EPP. They also have open drain control

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-09 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: OK overnight with 1 foot cable, no errors = 24 billion EPP operations error free. I think that one is licked. Trying 12 foot flat cable now, 360 million EPP ops with no errors so far... I will send out new bitfiles and send replacement (patched) 7I43s. Peter sent

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Peter, I found something interesting while checking to get your answers. Presiously I was only jogging X and Y, and did not get any errors. This time I tried Z as well. When I jog the Z axis I get the TRAM write error. That would explain why I get the error when running a G-Code program, but

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter, I found something interesting while checking to get your answers. Presiously I was only jogging X and Y, and did not get any errors. This time I tried Z as well. When I jog the Z axis I get the TRAM write error. That would explain why I

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-05 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Peter, At this point I am just working out the configuration. I am not connected to anything as far as hardware. There is nothing connected to the P3 and P4 connectors. Regards, Eric Well thats fairly weird. If there is no configuration difference, Is it possible that there is a electrical

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-05 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter, At this point I am just working out the configuration. I am not connected to anything as far as hardware. There is nothing connected to the P3 and P4 connectors. Regards, Eric Thats even more bizzare I bought a D945GCLF2 to test

[Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Sebastian, et al, I am getting a strange error using the hostmot2 driver and the 7i43 board. The error is hm2/hm2_7i43.0: TRAM write error! (addr=0x1000, size=8, iter=68373). The error occurs when running a g-code program but not while jogging, at least initially. If I bring the system up from a

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Peter C. Wallace
] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Sebastian, et al, I am getting a strange error using the hostmot2 driver and the 7i43 board. The error is hm2/hm2_7i43.0: TRAM write error! (addr=0x1000, size=8, iter=68373). The error occurs when running a g-code program but not while jogging

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Peter, What EPP mode are you using and what type and length of cable do you have between the 7I43 and Parallel port? The available parallel port modes in the BIOS are Output only, Bi-directional, EPP and ECP. It is set to EPP, but I do not see a further selection for mode of EPP. I think we

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Peter C. Wallace
-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board Peter, What EPP mode are you using and what type and length of cable do you have between the 7I43 and Parallel port? The available parallel port modes in the BIOS are Output only, Bi-directional, EPP and ECP. It is set to EPP, but I do not see

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Eric H. Johnson wrote: I am getting a strange error using the hostmot2 driver and the 7i43 board. The error is hm2/hm2_7i43.0: TRAM write error! (addr=0x1000, size=8, iter=68373). The error occurs when running a g-code program but not while

Re: [Emc-users] Write error with hostmot2 and 7i43 board

2008-12-04 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Eric H. Johnson wrote: I am using the servo-thread for read and write. I also tried slowing down the servo thread, although I could try slowing it down more. I was using 1ms (100). 1 ms should be fine (I think 100Usec is the approximate