On Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:54:38 AM Peter C. Wallace did opine:

> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:05:14 -0500
> > From: gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>
> > Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
> > 
> >     <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > 
> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PID & BLDC
> > 
> > On Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:01:43 AM Viesturs Lےےcis did opine:
> > 
> > 2011/11/26 gene heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com>:
> > > It is a firmware problem.  The board contains a 200k gate device,
> > > but the firmware says its for a 400k gate device.
> > 
> > I had this problem 3 months ago and then it disappeared until
> > yesterday. So are You telling that I had 200K card working with 400K
> > firmware?
> >
> >No, but the kernel log you posted said the card was a 200k card but the
> >firmware it tried to load was for a 400k card.  Go back and look at the
> >link you posted, the error was pretty clear.
> 
> Before the 7I43 is configured is has only a small CPLD for the EPP
> handshaking and FPGA programming control. This CPLD only connects to one
> parallel port data bit. This allows a very minimal 2 input bits and 2
> output bits but this is sufficient to load the FPGA. The 200K indication
> just means that after trying to read one of these bits the host computer
> got a 0 bit. Many hardware problems can mimic this.
> 
> When  Viesters first had this problem months ago ISTR that if driver
> debugging was turned on, the EPP port simply read as all 0's which
> would cause the 200K warning.
> 
> > BTW it is not working with 200K firmware. I tried it just now.
> 
> Post that snippet of the load attempt please.
> 
> > Viesturs
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Please fix your quoting Peter.  There is no way to separate what you wrote 
above from what I wrote above.  You'll have people thinking I'm an expert 
or something. :)

Cheers, Gene
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