Re: bdi801bin.tgz

["Ian Wright" <Ian-at-iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Ray,

Bill is getting exactly the same error final messages I did when I tried to
run
minis.run (I didn't get the axis faults).  As I'm having some problems
trying to compile a new kernel for
the original BDI - for some obscure reason, when I run a recompiled kernel
the rt modules don't load themselves and I have to do a 'depmod -a' at the
command line to make emc work) - I haven't pursued experimenting with the
BDI801 install yet.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray" <rehenry-at-up.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: 11 August 2001 22:45
Subject: Re: bdi801bin.tgz


>
>
> 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
>
>
>