[Emc-users] Subject and quoting please?

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Jansen
Guys, I am definitely not a moderator but ... I see lots of posts that have subjects not matching the content and complete quoted emails. Could we please try to get the subject of emails matching the content and quote only the necessary lines of the original email. Things are getting impossible

[Emc-users] Spindle Motor (was Joint 0 Following Error)

2008-11-25 Thread Doug Goff
Andy, The motor tool Gene was (probably) trying to recall is the Proxxon IB/E Professional Rotary Tool. I'm using one on my smallest machine, and it does a great job. Very nicely machined nose allows mounting, the motor is fairly quiet (compared to the Porter-Cable routers on two of the

Re: [Emc-users] Spindle Motor (was Joint 0 Following Error)

2008-11-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Doug Goff wrote: Andy, The motor tool Gene was (probably) trying to recall is the Proxxon IB/E Professional Rotary Tool. I'm using one on my smallest machine, and it does a great job. Very nicely machined nose allows mounting, the motor is fairly quiet (compared to

Re: [Emc-users] dm_crypt and EMC2/RTAI

2008-11-25 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Thomas L Marshall wrote: [snip] Thanks again Jeff. The links you provided were just what I needed to compile the missing raid10 and dm- modules that I needed. After I was able to simply copy them to the existing modules directory and depmod did the rest. Any chance these modules could be

Re: [Emc-users] dm_crypt and EMC2/RTAI

2008-11-25 Thread Jon Elson
Jeff Epler wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:33:56PM -0800, Thomas L Marshall wrote: Is it possible to simply compile the module and copy it in place??? No, not easily. The scripts for building the kernel do some complicated things, and I'm not sure how to get things to the state

Re: [Emc-users] Using hostmot2 for 7i43

2008-11-25 Thread Jon Elson
Eric H. Johnson wrote: Peter, I changed the parallel port mode to EPP, no difference. How does one tell what the interface version is? Most BIOS's only give an EPP/ECP/SPP etc. selection. The only ones that had both versions were from a certain range of manufacturing dates around 1999-2000

Re: [Emc-users] Using hostmot2 for 7i43

2008-11-25 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Jon Elson wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:23:40 -0600 From: Jon Elson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Using

Re: [Emc-users] dm_crypt and EMC2/RTAI

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas L Marshall
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:38 -0500, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Thomas L Marshall wrote: [snip] Thanks again Jeff. The links you provided were just what I needed to compile the missing raid10 and dm- modules that I needed. After I was able to simply copy them to the existing modules

[Emc-users] No EMC2

2008-11-25 Thread Marshland Engineering
Not sure if I'm being stupid or not, please on. I upgraded my harddisk with a migration package and Ubuntu did not want to boot. I downloaded the latest version, 2.2.2.1-6.06 Ubuntu from the web site and reinstalled. All up and working except no EMC2 ? I'm not sure where to start. Thanks

Re: [Emc-users] No EMC2

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Epler
If I understand correctly, you had a Breezy (5.10) system that you upgraded to Dapper (6.06). As a rule, we recommend *against* using the distribution upgrade to go from one version of Ubuntu to another. This generally renders emc2 unusable, as you have discovered. If you haven't yet erased the

Re: [Emc-users] Using hostmot2 for 7i43

2008-11-25 Thread Jon Elson
Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Jon Elson wrote: Same problem with my products. If the cable doesn't say IEEE 1284 Compliant right on the cable jacket, it WON'T WORK! Others ring out fine, but don't have the twisted pairs internally to prevent crosstalk. Even WITH the

[Emc-users] Friction compensation

2008-11-25 Thread Ádám Novák
Hi, I am at the state of configuring our stepper driven milling machine and came across an interesting issue. I set up all the parameters needed to drive an axis including backlash compensation. Most important values are as follows: SCALE = 1000 BACKLASH = 0.004 Then when I hook up a digital