Hi,

   I have been working on a small CPU / STEP  Generator combo for controlling 
small stepper based CNC systems.  The CPU board can be seen here:

http://www.xylotex.com/x86/Xylotex86.htm

  the STEP generator is of similar size and fits under the CPU board and has 
basically 2 parallel ports worth of signals (8 axes with I/O).  I have been 
testing the system functionality using a heavily modified version of Doug 
Yeager's CNC Pro running under FreeDOS.  This works fine (so far).  The one 
issue with the CPU board is that it has no real parallel port.  I am using the 
IDE port at 0x170 for all I/O when communication with a Xilinx FPGA on the STEP 
Gen board.

 Since I would like to also run under EMC2 I loaded the Ubuntu 10.04 and 
started running the Stepconf wizard.  I changed the port address to 0x170 and 
then tried to jog the X axis (just to see if I could get signal access on the 
IDE port).  I ended up getting an error about a broken pipe (if you go to 
stepconf and use 0x170 as the address I think you be able to see the same 
message I got.)

  My question to those that may know is, is that error something that EMC2 is 
generating (so that it may be possible to use 0x170 with a code change to 
EMC2), or is that error from a deeper part of Linux that would be much harder 
to modify?

Thanks,

Jeff
  
                                          
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