On 4/10/2012 9:35 PM, Dave wrote: > On 4/10/2012 5:52 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >> Kirk Wallace<kwallace@...> writes: >> >> >>> <...> >>> >>> Dan from the DIY-CNC list has loaned a G540 to me (it might be here >>> Wed.). I plan to investigate this pull-up issue and document it, maybe >>> on the wiki. One of my hopes is to come up with a "just works" type of >>> solution. Many of us on this list understand electronics and software >>> enough to not think twice about adding a resistor here, or a bit check >>> there, but in the real world of CNC, many people don't want to or can't >>> get that deeply into the machine's workings. They just want something >>> they can buy and it just works. LinuxCNC might become more popular if it >>> had more "just works". >>> <...> >>> >>> >> [Sorry if this message gets duplicated. I'm still having trouble >> straightening >> out my SourceForge connection.] >> >> Just for grins, has anyone thought to ask Mariss, for example via the >> GeckoDrive >> Yahoo Group? It's been some years, but the last time I asked him a question >> about some formulas that appear in documentation on the GeckoDrive website, >> he >> replied promptly. >> >> Regards, >> Kent >> >> >> >> > We could, but I think we have it narrowed down to the LPT port not going > into EPP mode properly on certain hardware. Jon thinks this is the old > Bios issue and I suspect that he is correct. > > Dave Most likely this is correct, Dave, but it sure looks like Kirk is proposing to experiment on the drive to determine its characteristics. Were I to try this, my wife would give me a squinty-eyed look, possibly snort (although she usually saves this for more "important" situations), and mutter about how men never ask for directions:-)
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