On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:22 PM, mike walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I had this problem the cure is simple Stop emc before shutting down. > 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. IO cards are available you choose which to use, its open source so you can change which cards it supports Dave Caroline ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
