Re: bdi801bin.tgz

[Ray <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Bill

There should be three run files already set up.  minis.run starts a
steppermod version, minif.run starts a freqmod version, and minip.run
starts a ppmc (Jon Elson board) version.  

1 - Try minis.run and tell me what happens.  (My guess is that some of the
error messages but not all will go away. (see below)  

On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> Ok, I have been trying to get the bdi801 bin to load
> without much luck. Presently running original BDI.
> Copied the 3 files to directory /usr/local/emc0801/
> and performed the cat and untarred it. did the 
> ./install and so far everything is ok.  Go to the 
> eemc directory at /usr/local/emc0801/emc and
> edited the emc.ini to run steppermod, commented
> out the period parameter for freqmod and saved
> the file. 

Steppermod is the active choice in emc.ini.  

2 - Would you send me a copy of the edited emc.ini that you are attempting
to run?

>tried ./emc.run and it looks like everything
> is going ok. The first time it runs I enter 3_0 when
> it asks for the rt platform. Continues doing it's stuff,
> when it comes to
> 
> starting emc motion program steppermod.o - done
> starting emc io program minimillio.o - done
> starting emc task program minimilltask.o - done
> minimilltaskintf.cc 962 error on axis0
> minimilltaskintf.cc 962 error on axis1

These two errors are the result of the limit polarity being reversed. 
emc.ini expects to have real limit switches connected to the limit pin. 
These will go away if you reverse the MIN_LIMIT_SWITCH_POLARITY = 0 and
MAX_... to (1) for all of the axis definitions.

> running emc display program tkemc
> emcsh.cc 5642: cant connect to emc

This one bothers me.  Are you trying to run as a common user or as root? 

3 - You might try running xemc rather than tkemc as see if the result is
different.  I don't think that xemc uses emcsh.

Thanks for the feedback.  Get back to me.

Ray