Gentle persons: The recent discussion of problems with parallel-port cards and Pluto/Mesa hardware/software reminded me that the subject of good and bad parallel-port cards (and their underlying chipsets) is not well treated in the wiki.
Maybe I'm just not good enough with the search function, but Jon Elson's warnings on his Pico Systems controller pages are the only places I find in the wiki that suggest one should be cautious when purchasing a plug-in card and it's a fair guess that the information will be discovered mostly by people interested in Jon's controllers rather than in plug-in cards. I, for one, would greatly appreciate a new wiki page (linking directly from the EMC2 Supported Hardware page, say) that warns about the general problem and identifies chips/boards known to work and those known not to work and any workarounds that have been found to work. I don't want to volunteer to start such a page since I have zero experience with these cards but I'll help edit the page if necessary because I'm now on the hunt for plug-in cards for some new-ish motherboards that lack a parallel port and I prefer to make new missteps rather than repeat old ones:-) Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
