That's interesting as the Moschip 9805 chipset boards have worked well for me with the LPT step and direction drivers on EMC2 and also Mach3.
Perhaps the driver that runs the 7i43 needs a different mode than the LPT step and direction driver/s ?? Dave Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Maximilian H wrote: > >> I am trying to get this combination of a mesa 7i43 and an oxford >> semiconductor ox12pci840 chipset pci parallel card to run, but I cannot >> get it to run in epp_wide mode and I cannot get a servo thread to run >> with a cycle time of less than 10 millisecs. With onboard mainboards I >> got 1 millisecs cycle times without errors. >> >> Has anybody succeeded where I failed so far ? >> > > Hm, i've had success with the Oxford Semiconductor PCI952 chipset with > wide mode disabled, but i haven't tried the 840. > > > >> Is the information in the hm2_7i43 doc still valid that moschip 9805 >> parport pci cards are junk ? >> > > Yes, the 9805 chipset is buggy and there's nothing any driver can do > about it. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
