On Wednesday 03 May 2017 17:11:02 andy pugh wrote: > On 3 May 2017 at 20:22, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > What x86 board, suitably small but not that outpriced yudoo thingy, > > will run linuxcnc well AND can do the spi thing? > > I doubt that you will find an x86 PC with SPI. (though I could be > wrong). > > But the 7i90 can also do EPP.
Sure, but whats the bandwidth of a parport? 50 kilobaud equ maybe. When the FCC with its radiated noise regulations got done about 20 years back, I could not drive a parallel port printer with a coco3 as its active time for both data and strobe was too short to get thru the filters in the printer, and had to switch to a serial printer. A 1.79 MHz clock, active for half a cycle. Printers printed about every 3rd character. BUT, Got nother problem tonight, I can ping the buildbot, but cannot connect with a package manager. Its rejecting http access. I don't have a recommendation as to the proper size of brogan to reboot it with. FWIW, it pings just fine, averaging 85 milliseconds from here in West Virginia. I have one card left that will boot it, so I believe I am going to dd that puppy to a file on the usb hard drive thats plugged in and recognized. And then reburn (and check for boot function) the other 4 cards so I'll have some backups. I don't believe the cards have failed, but that the update that replaces almost everything in the /boot partition has a bad file. I see what was meant about x86 vs spi, a good comparison to dentist's specializing in hens teeth, it seems all the x86 boards have the spi rigged to handle only a bios update, and can do it on an otherwise DOA board. Thats one hell of a screwup IMNSHO. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
