On Sunday 22 May 2016 14:51:06 Danny Miller wrote: > Any advice, folks? I've gotta move off that Dell machine ASAP and > really want to avoid a whole reinstall. > > No idea why it works up to the point where I try to move axes and get > joint following error just right there. > > Danny
I'd put a Mesa 5i25 card from one of the 2 US suppliers in that dell. Peter is out on the left coast in shaky dirt territory and John Thornton is smack in the middle of our land. Thats what I did several months ago, by and large solving the majority of the problems. > On 5/21/2016 3:07 AM, Danny Miller wrote: > > OK, we cloned the drive to an SSD off the Intel-based machine, now > > it's on an AMD64. > > > > It found the ethernet 7i92 card no problem. However, any attempt to > > move an axis throws a Joint Following Error immediately. So, it > > don't work. > > > > >uname -a > > > > Linux localhost 3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 3.2.78-1 > > i686 GNU/Linux > > > > Ran a latency test, found the number was surprisingly high: > > servo 1ms interval 1056515 jitter 58515 > > base interval 82973 jitter 57973 > > > > What concerns me is the i686 installation on an AMD64 machine. Does > > that need to be changed? > > > > Danny > > > > On 5/8/2016 6:37 AM, John Thornton wrote: > >> While dd is touted as easy and convenient it is indeed a linux guru > >> tool only with many gotchas and very difficult to use. Here is an > >> example dd comand line for your viewing pleasure. > >> > >> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/sdc1 bs=4K count=2654720 > >> > >> and how the numbers are arrived at lol > >> > >> fired up a python REPL as a calculator and checked partition and > >> filesystem sizes > >> for /dev/sdb1 I calculated (end-start)*sector size > >> from tune2fs you multiply block count by block size > >> divide two times by 1024 to get MB > >> divide the partition size by 4k to get a proper block count for dd > >> > >> I use Clonezilla almost everyday and if you clone a drive the > >> receiving drive must be the same exact size or larger. If they are > >> not the same exact drives then you must use the expert mode and > >> tell Clonezilla to not check the target drive size. > >> > >> The easy way is to copy the home directory then install from a live > >> cd then copy the linuxcnc directory to the new drive. > >> > >> JT > >> > >> On 5/7/2016 10:34 AM, Danny Miller wrote: > >>> So as per previous thread, I may be moving this to another PC. > >>> And probably change to an SSHD. > >>> > >>> I spent a ridiculous amount of time getting the OS and LinuxCNC RT > >>> installed and configured. And I didn't do all of it myself so > >>> it's not a straight shot to repeat. I'm just saying if I start > >>> from scratch again, this will not be a quick operation. > >>> > >>> How reliable is it to just copy the entire installation to a new > >>> drive on a new (different) machine? > >>> > >>> On Windows, I've just moved my old drive to a new machine a number > >>> of times. But I was foiled when I replaced my AMD-based > >>> motherboard with an Intel-based MB, no boot. My LinuxCNC machine > >>> is currently on an Intel Core Duo, and I might change to an > >>> AMD-based machine. Will it even be able to boot? Will it be easy > >>> to adapt to an AMD without a full reinstall? What's it take to > >>> adapt it? > >>> > >>> I was told there's a convenient tool or method for creating an > >>> image of the whole installation (OS and LinuxCNC) and packing it > >>> up. Is that true? 'Cause I sure wish one of those had been on > >>> Bittorrent, that would have saved my a crazy amount of time. 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