On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Ed wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:08:01 -0500
From: Ed <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)"
<[email protected]>
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Emc-users] changing from 5i20 to 6i24
Well, my ancient computer that drives a lathe died and I no longer have any
machines with the PCI interface that the 5i20 needs.
What would be the easiest way to switch to a 6i24-16? I bought one not
realizing that it is not in the PNCCONF setup wizard and I am lost without
it. I will have a few questions after as it has a tool changer and its
associated files.
Thanks, Ed.
The easiest thing would be to just use your existing hal and ini files
just changing all instances of "5i20" with "5i24" in the hal or ini files
(that's not a typo, the 6I24 normally uses 5I24 firmware so identifies as a
5I24)
The other thing you would need to do is flash the 6I24 card with appropriate
firmware. Unlike the 5I20 that has firmware loaded at linuxCNC startup, the
6I24 loads its firmware from on board memory at power-on. Updating the
flash memory is done with the mesaflash utility. What firmware was the 5I20
using?
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
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