On Friday 27 February 2009 20:33:24 Chris Radek wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:41:42PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > It always crashes a few microns before we reach the destination in Z.
> > I think this might have something to do with the backlash compensation.
> 
> When it crashes what are the symptoms?  can you move windows?  move
> the mouse pointer?  does the caps-lock light still work?  Do the
> step pulses continue or stop?

It crashes the kernel or RTAI. Often it will immediately reboot the machine.

> Have you tried disabling screw compensation?

I will try that next.

> You say you think it's 
> involved - please share why you think this and what you have done to
> test.

I'm not so sure anymore. But it appeared the first time after I implemented
screw compensation. Maybe that's just coincidence, because I never really tried 
a lot
before on that machine.

> I don't get the crash here so please share all the information you
> can.

See my other mail. It crashes on arc moves with G2/G3. Even from MDI.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

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