I think that would depend on the machine you are placing the cards in. A SFF (Small Form Factor) machine will require a low profile card while a regular desktop will take a full size card.
Joe ----- On 11 Jul, 2018, at 13:13, yomin estiven jaramillo munera yejm...@gmail.com wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
