I agree, I have used a few of the Rosewill Moschip based cards for step and direction and they work fine. The EPP mode for use with the smart motion cards is where problems pop up.
Dave On 1/29/2011 7:20 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 15:07 -0800, craig wrote: > >> Where can one find a list of parallel port card known to work well with >> EMC ? >> If not in EMC docs a list (possibly with comments or notes) would be useful. >> >> Craig >> > It depends on what you want to do with the parallel port. If you are > using "loadrt hal_parport": > http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html/hal_parallel_port.html > > in your .hal file to create software generated steps, PWM, or digital > I/O, then most any card will do. For this sort of thing I use tend to > use these: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166007 > > but there are many to choose from. > > If you have a Pluto, Pico or Mesa FPGA signal generator that uses EPP, > then there are very few cards that will work. We are in the process of > putting a list together now. I have this one on order: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158040 > > and will know how it works soon. Otherwise, many motherboard parallel > ports work okay. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
