Hi, I think I am real close to getting this to work but... I am having 2 problems with emc2, I don't know if they are related but I suspect that they are:
1) I have created a test.hal file that I have been using without emc2 so that I can test my I/O, run servos open loop, and tune my PID gains. This file runs fine except the first time I run it after a cold boot of the computer. After a cold boot and loading the file into hal using "halrun -I -f test.hal" the watchdog.has.bit always starts as TRUE and the I/O does not work. If I exit hal and then rerun the command everything is fine and I can control the I/O. Or, if I don't exit and just reset the bit in hal then everything is fine from that point on until I turn off the computer. 2) I have made a m5i20.ini file for my machine and another hal file made from test.hal so that I can run emc2. When I start emc2 using m5i20.ini the initialization seems to load the stuff in the hal file without errors but then has problems starting. I get an error: "Invalid configuration of axes is preventing emc from starting" Looking at the dmesg output I see something about the watchdog.bit that Doesn't look good: [11773.532552] hm2_5i20.0: initialized AnyIO board at 0000:00:09.0 [11774.744518] hm2/hm2_5i20.0: Watchdog has bit! (set the .has-bit pin to False to resume) [11893.995647] hm2/hm2_5i20.0: trying to recover from IO error or Watchdog bite [11893.995653] hm2/hm2_5i20.0: error recover successful! [11942.947460] hm2_5i20.0: dropping AnyIO board at 0000:00:09.0 [11942.947468] hm2/hm2_5i20.0: unregistered I have tried a number of things to fix this but have been unsuccessful. Part of my problem may be that I don't really completely understand what goes on in hal. When I "addf hm2_5i20.0.pet_watchdog servo-thread" when does this actually start running periodically? I am assuming after the "start" in hal, but even though I "setp hm2_5i20.0.watchdog.has_bit FALSE" just before the start, it still doesn't seem to work correctly. I have placed the m5i20.ini at http://pastebin.ca/1546296 bridgeportS2I2.hal + dmesg output is http://www.pastebin.ca/1546441 Any help will be appreciated John Figie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
