On Saturday 24 September 2016 21:12:33 Peter C. Wallace wrote:

> > Peter C. Wallace:
> >
> > Do you have a software tool I can use to trace this *$#& BoB pin by
> > pin?. The labeling, and the docs that I was sent, do not have enough
> > info to clue me as to what pin on the 5i25, would correspond to what
> > circuit it feeds.  Many thanks if you do.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>
> I dont have a tool for this but isnt there a parallel port testing
> tool in LinuxCNC that would do a fair job of twiddling output bits
> while monitoring inputs?
>
I think so, for plain parports. I may even have the loopback adapter, but 
that only tests the parport. I need to exercise the BoB itself, send 
something to pin one, and find it with a scope probe, repeat for pin 2 
etc etc.  Ditto for the inputs.  They are there, but NDI what pin they 
are by the time it gets to the 5i25.  Or from the 5i25 to the edge 
connectors on this board.

I suppose I could hack up a hal file that only loaded one encoder, so the 
rest was all gpio, and set up a couple tones, one inverted so I could 
tell which pin was which and go thru that one "axis" at a time. But that 
would make me think, and keep copious notes too.

I'll see what I can do though.  Thanks Peter.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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