EMC2 looks interesting. but after fooling with it for a few days on two
different boxes it seems to me that there are issues that need to be addressed.
Issue One. On both of the boxes I am using there is a common problem. I tell
it to shut down and it hangs on the last screen untill i hit the power switch.
these two boxes were loaded with two different downloads of EMC2. Both
downloads were told to check themselves before being told to load onto the hard
drive.
the first machine is a four processor intel chip. the second is a 2 processor
intel chip. any ideas?
Issue two. And to me much bigger. EMC2 basicly supports 6 I/O boards out of the
box. Personaly I do not want to spend a thousand bucks buying boards, daughter
boards, and softwhere to see if i can control a piece of machinery. If i was
doing it to sell comercialy that is one thing. but for what I do in my garage,
not so much. what i need is a PCI I/O board with at least 24 and preferibly 48
I/O points that i can wire to a opto isolator (if i think i need it) or
directly to a ttl level switch if i think i do not.
Why do i want all this? I have been designing machines for almost 40 years. I
have been fiddling with EMC2 for a couple of days. Linux? same thing. I want
SOME options built in. Like a decent I/O board, maybe some closer error
checking. (The first machine (windows based with linux sharing updated ok.) i
started the second machine up, connected to the web, it reported that there
were 11 updates. it loaded 4 of them and choked on 7, got to wonder what gives.
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