Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Rafael Skodlar
On 04/14/2011 09:43 AM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 4/14/11, Rafael Skodlar wrote: >> On 04/13/2011 07:52 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Rafael Skodlar wrote: >>> /boot was added because of crappy BIOS that was not able to handle cylinders beyond 1

[Emc-users] RC Servo on Wiki

2011-04-14 Thread Kirk Wallace
I can't think of any use for RC servo's for CNC applications, but there may be some educational value for someone trying to study using EMC2 HAL and PWM so I put my RC Servo notes on the Wiki. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?RC_Servo_Test Maybe a PUMA model could be made with RC serv

Re: [Emc-users] PSU

2011-04-14 Thread andy pugh
On 6 April 2011 21:07, andy pugh wrote: > 10,000uF @ 100V is £20 > 10,000uF @ 400V is £135 I picked up 3 x 3300uF from eBay at £20 all-in. Compared to the $186 _each_ from Mouser and the similar RS price I think I got a bargain. Now they have arrived, I think I see why they cost so much, They ar

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 4/14/11, Rafael Skodlar wrote: > On 04/13/2011 07:52 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Rafael Skodlar wrote: >> >>> /boot was added because of crappy BIOS that was not able to handle >>> cylinders beyond 1024 years ago. That's not needed anymore and makes no >>>

Re: [Emc-users] Hexapod project

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew
2011/4/14 MengJianjun > > It's real encouraging news for me. I've start a new projec which want to > porting to EMC2 from windows platform. > > It would be great, but I think it's not easy. > > From: ma...@michaelandholly.com > > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18

Re: [Emc-users] Hexapod project

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew
2011/4/14 Michael Jones > >-Original Message- > >From: Andrew [mailto:parallel.kinemat...@gmail.com] > >Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:37 PM > >To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > >Subject: [Emc-users] Hexapod project > > > >Hi, > >I've recently built a hexapod (of course, controlle

Re: [Emc-users] Hexapod project

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew
2011/4/13 R. van Twisk > Who didn't say that bigger is not always better??? > http://patapsco.nist.gov/ImageGallery/retrieve.cfm?imageid=299&dpi=150&fileformat=jpg > Looks good to me!!! :D > > To tell the truth, I can not imagine why they made the hexapod SO big in NIST. I.e. I can see some advan

Re: [Emc-users] Hexapod project

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew
2011/4/13 Kent A. Reed > Trick 1: You were looking at a website run by the specific laboratory. > NIST itself has a photo gallery. A search on "hexapod" at > http://patapsco.nist.gov/ImageGallery/search.cfm turned up two images, > one of the real hexapod and one of a VR version of same. Not so ma

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > >because once another partition is mounted as /usr, then the kernel > isn't . . . . > > This is probably where the rub is. They have perceived some desperate need > to do things in / for user space while the machine has not even mount

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Jan de Kruyf
>because once another partition is mounted as /usr, then the kernel isn't . . . . This is probably where the rub is. They have perceived some desperate need to do things in / for user space while the machine has not even mounted the partitions. Smells of windoze thinking. "Look ma no brain". And

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:31:56AM +0200, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > hahahahaha: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/foreward.html The guff from freedesktop.org still looks like an April fool's joke to me, because once another partition is mounted as /usr, then the kernel isn't gou

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Mark Wendt
On 04/14/2011 02:32 AM, Rafael Skodlar wrote: > Not true. You do not need /boot to boot any of multiple OSes installed > on the same system. Grub or LILO for that matter handled that just fine. > It was the BIOS limitation that required to have boot stuff under the > cylinder number 1024. Even that

Re: [Emc-users] A possible new gotcha for emc users.

2011-04-14 Thread Jan de Kruyf
hahahahaha: http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/foreward.html So guess which distributions are not even LINUX. Nevermind Unix. Regards to all of you, let me go back to hybernation. (and Debian) Jan de Kruyf. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On Tue,