On Friday 22 February 2019 16:06:46 Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:07 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > memtest86 still has me scratching my head. If its so badly broken, > > then how in hell is it running lcnc without a hiccup while I go thru > > the copies of the original .ini and .hal files, fixing the syntax > > errors that changing the hardware its running on makes? Heck of a > > good question that. With some luck and a bigger supply of giddyup I > > might even have it rigged to drive some of the machine good enough > > to carve its own back panel by the time the new memory gets here > > late Monday. > > > > Well, maybe it's the memtest installation that's broken---uninstall > > and > > reinstall? It' should rewrite the boot areas memtest uses, in case > they got corrupted > I gave that a fleeting thought, so fleeting I had forgotten about it by the time I'd refilled my coffee cup.
Now, for PCW; I have it running an admittedly stripped to the bones config. Nothing is actually hooked up to the machine. But I can home it w/o motion, and I can jug the dros to the iii file set limits. In my old hal file I had: setp stepgen.0.min_limit [AXIS_X]MIN_LIMIT I put that in the new file and its a no-no, pin hm2_5i25.0.stepgen.0.0.min_limit does not exist. In fact no min or max_limits show except as ini.data visible to a halmeter. Yet the dro's stop at the limits set in the ini file under [AXIS_(xyz)]MIN_LIMIT or MAX_LIMIT. Weird, but since it works, I guess I can continue hooking it up to move the machine. But are there any gotchas to watch for? The switches for active home setters will be a few says arriving yet. So my next move will be to cable up the VFD and see if I can get it running. So far, I have no PID's loaded or in a signal path. Somebody should tell me, when there are no encoders for feedback, why I need them. The old now broken HF never had any and seemed to work ok. And remove/reinstall memtest86 just for S&G. Progress! For some definition of the word... > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
