Coming to a similar conclusion. Mach3 has created a low-level driver that accesses the parallel port directly, so won't work with USB to parallel adapters, nor most parallel ISA/PCI cards.
However, you're right that Mach3 may not need EPP/ECP modes. More importantly, I am wondering why we would need Mach3 on this machine. Any custom software we're writing is in Linux, EMC2 (which will handle pick-and-place stuff) has it's workaround, and WinXP is for the 3D printer stuff , which uses the serial port/USB. Think I'm good to go with this. Thanks for the replies. Cheers, -Neil. Quoting andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>: > On 30 June 2011 16:00, Neil <emc_d...@narwani.org> wrote: > >>> Second, there is an error in the BIOS code of the D510M0 that causes it >>> to report its parallel port settings incorrectly. > >> And wondering the exact thing about the D525MW. EMC2 having a >> workaround for it is excellent, but we'll also use this machine with >> WinXP (for some 3D printing software and perhaps Mach3), > > The bug only matters if you want to use the port for EPP > communications. (Mesa or Pico cards). if you are simply using the pins > as individual IO lines it doesn't matter at all. As that is all that > Mach knows how to do (to the best of my knowledge) it is a non-issue. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
