On 19/6/13 at 3:16 PM, [email protected] (andy pugh) wrote: >On 19 June 2013 00:06, Alexander Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Has anyone go any suggestions for a twin paraport remappable lpt >>card that will be remappable under Ubuntu *and* is available - >>and works well? The Mesa card seems to be the best fit but I'm >>uncertain what I should use between it and the pendant. > >You can just use it as a parallel port, but it would make more sense >to put the pendant on the real parallel port, and put your motion >control on the significantly more capable 5i25. That way you no longer >need to do software step generation, and can have much >higher-resolution step timing, even if you don't need faster step >timing.
Hi Andy, Thanks for that. I should actually print out the manual for the 5i25 and sit down and read the jolly thing! That way I'll get more of an idea of what it really does! Cheers, Alex. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
