Kirk, I like your idea but I got lucky and didn't need to use it.
I guess I was not real clear on what I was asking. I knew that the ports in the manual were wrong and the correct ports were the ones from the "lspci -v". My problem was the fact that the example "lspci -v" from the wiki and the one from the manual both showed a list of port numbers increasing down and both showed the port at the top of the list to be a valid port (i.e., the lowest port address), while my result had the highest address at the top of the list. Anyway I took a gamble, and used the "0xec00" in my ".hal" file, plugged my cable in to one of the two new ports, and got lucky on the first try. Everything worked. Actually it wasn't the first try, I had tried, loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xec00 0x378" and it hadn't worked so I changed it to loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xec00" and it worked. I had tried the whole list of ports on both connectors without any luck when I had left the 0x378 in the config statement as the second port (without adding the necessary reads and writes). Can anyone explain why that won't work? And what does the "1" or "-1" after the read or write command mean? Alan --- Alan Condit 1085 Tierra Ct. Woodburn, OR 97071 Email -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home-Office (503) 982-0906 Re: [Emc-users] Second parallel port setup From: Kirk Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 2008-06-10 02:28 On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 18:33 -0700, Alan Condit wrote: > I am still working on getting the second parallel port running. > > I am trying to figure out what port address to plug in to the parport ... snip > I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801] not used > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Looking up the port address in a manual may not work because the PC assigns the address during boot-up and it may change dependent on the PCI slot or computer the card is plugged into. I use the lspci -v you show below. > > When I typed "lspci -v" as suggested in the documentation for emc2 I > got the following (note port addresses decreasing): > > 0000:00:08.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9815 > Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) > Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 2P0S (2 port parallel > adaptor) > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at ec00 [size=8] > I/O ports at e400 [size=8] > I/O ports at e000 [size=8] > I/O ports at dc00 [size=8] > I/O ports at d800 [size=8] > I/O ports at d400 [size=16] > > > Since the ports are listed in reverse order from what is shown in the > manual, and the wiki, I don't know whether to use 0xec00 or 0xd400. > My first attempt was to plug the cable into one of the pci parallel > ports and to try and replace the 0x378 with the various addresses. > > Help please. > > Alan I set up port zero pin 1 in the .hal file to connect to the flood button, "net Flood iocontrol.0.coolant-flood => parport.0.pin-01-out". Usually, pin 1 port zero is assigned to something else, so I comment the line out and put the new one in. Then I set the "loadrt hal_parport cfg="0xXXXX"" line to load only one port and put in the "addf parport.0.read servo-thread" and "addf parport.0.write servo-thread". I start with 0xXXXX being the first address on the lspci -v list. I bring up EMC2 with a voltmeter on pin 1 (and to ground, pin 18 through 25, or connector shell) of a PCI parallel port and with AXIS, toggle Flood. I check each pin one for a toggling voltage. If the first address doesn't work, I exit EMC2, edit the .hal file for the next address and try again until I find the address for each parport. Sometimes I can find the addresses right away, sometimes I mess up the configuration and have to go through the procedure a couple of times to correct my mistakes, but so far this method has eventually worked. I also have a habit of not remembering to enter an "addf hal_parport.X.read/write" for each address in the final .hal file. Good Luck. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC/EMC CNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending Craftsman AA 109 restoration Shizuoka ST-N/EMC CNC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
