> --- On Tue, 4/9/13, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > <clip> > >> It has been discussed many times on this list that there is >> only one or two >> pci-to-parport cards out there that do actually work in EPP >> mode. All the >> others do so only in theory and docs, not in reality. >> I think Viesturs is overstating the problems with these plug-in cards. Yes, there are several old ones that definitely don't work, and one where the manufacturer of the chip even admits that it doesn't work.
Most on-motherboard ports work fine, as long as a little BIOS bug is worked around, and as far as I know all LinuxCNC 2.4 and later drivers know how to do this. So, that problem should no longer be any problem. (I sometimes run into this when running diagnostics on EPP-attached hardware. If the diags only work after running LinuxCNC, that makes it clear.) Hopefully we can assemble a list of boards and parport chips known to work and make that available on the wiki. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
