On Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:12:55 Marius Liebenberg did opine: > Gene, > The pins on the MB is just a double header so you should be able to do > that. I am looking at doing just that so I made a visit to the supplier > and had a look at the MB to see how they do it. > You could always make a little slot in the end plate of the PCI card or > pop out one of the unused place holders on the back plate.
Which is what I did do at one point but with a 50 pin scsi cable from a triple 82C55 based card, and the edges of the hole in the backplane were too sharp for comfort IMO. To be comfy, it would have needed an edge breaker strip installed. And those aren't commodity items here in the middle of WV. :) > On 2013/04/10 05:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 11:40:26 Rudy du Preez did opine: > >> The Intel D2800MT actually has a parallel port. It sits on the board > >> and needs a ribbon cable extension. > > > > Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's > > CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's? Sounds cool > > if you can get the cable out of a box like the 350 mini itx box. > > > >> I am currently running a Linuxcnc 2.5.2 on this board with two > >> parports: one in the PCI-E slot and one on the ribbon cable. > >> One is configured as "out" and the other as "in". > >> > >> Rudy Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
