On 4/10/2012 9:48 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > 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:-) > > Just my 2 cents worth. > > Regards, > Kent > > > > Yes, I already had a G540 connected to a test rig and I exchanged the hal file with the guy who is having problems with his PC. My PC doesn't suffer from the same issue that his does, even when using an identical hal file, so it is definitely related to his hardware. You have only see some of the message traffic on this issue as this started on the DIY CNC forum. :-) Sam, Kirk, Jon, I, and probably others on this list, also hang out at the other forum.
We have had some lively discussions on that forum as Mach3 also hang out there. :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
