The bad news is that the parallel port chipset that is on my new PC's motherboard, does not want to talk to PPMC when two encoder boards are installed in PPMC.
The good news is that this is the problem with the motherboard's parallel port chipset, and the proof of it is that my old decrepit Dell PC can talk to PPMC with two encoder boards, just fine. Jon provided awesome support during this ordeal. Thanks to Jon. The 4th axis rotary table works pretty well, except it rotates backwards instead of forward, but that's a minor, separate story. Since the old Dell PC is falling apart and is just not powerful enough, I would like to somehow make my new PC talk to PPMC. To that end, I thought to install a PCI parallel port card into the new PC. This, naturally, brings up two questions. 1) Would you recommend some honestly made, reliable, and preferably low profile PCI parallel card? 2) If I install a second card, how would my PC see it? With a different I/O address (not 378?). How do I find out that I/O number? Thanks guys. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
