Hi, Gene. we have decided to use the Mesa 5i25 for our application, in this case could you recommended us to use the standard profile or the low profile?, so i would like to known, how is the installation process of this card in the machine? thanks you.
El mar., 10 de jul. de 2018 a la(s) 21:53, Gene Heskett ( ghesk...@shentel.net) escribió: > On Tuesday 10 July 2018 20:13:27 yomin estiven jaramillo munera wrote: > > > Hi guys, I need configure 2 parallel ports PCI express ( > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WCH) for a application of 6 > > axis. however I am having some problems with the recognition of > > parallel ports in Debian. > > Someone knows what can I do with that? > > I need that linuxcnc recognizes the 2 ports. but i must do a initial > > configuration from terminal. > > can you help me? > > Does this machine have a std pci slot? If it does, a Mesa 5i25 card will > give you a pair of parports, independent of the machines own parport, > and do it with more i/o bandwidth than you'll get from adding another > parport card. I have 2 machines setup with the 5i25, and both work well. > A 4 axis G0704, which uses both ports and and a 7x12 lathe that so far > is only using one of them. > > You can use 2 more or less std parport breakout boards, and I highly > recommend the SainSmart boards for that as they have no signal > distorting opto-isolators in any output. They do isolate the inputs > however, which limits the speed of any spindle encoders involved unless > the opto is snipped out of the circuit and bypassed in those two inputs. > I am an old C.E.T., so thats easy for me to do. > > I have no clue if Peter (mesanet) has a pci-express version of that card. > You might ask, or an old off lease Dell usually has a pair of pci slots, > and can be had for less than a 100 dollar bill from places like > pcliquidater.com. > > Another, more pricey way might be to use a 7i90HD and a trio of 7i42TA's, > which are required to protect the 3 volt circuitry of the 7i90, which I > am running a converted Sheldon 11x36 with, that gives you 72 gpio's and > several choices of FPGA configs. So I am doing what needs to be done to > run this lathe and still have around 25 gpio's I haven't used. This card > can be driven from a parport, or from an SPI, which I am doing from a > raspi 3b on that machine. > > I hope this helps, yomin estiven jaramillo munera, where are you? > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
