Re: EMC and STG boards.

[Enrique Sanchez Vela <enrique_sanchez_vela-at-yahoo.com>]

Will, Till, 

   thanks for the info I once already created a module for the stgII 8
axis card but wanted to be sure it was correctly made and not a
Frankestein of my own, since I am having weird problems, such as the
servos moving on their own.

thanks,
esv.

--- Will Shackleford <shackle-at-cme.nist.gov> wrote:
> 
> Enrique Sanchez Vela wrote:
> > Hello again...
> > 
> >   I have a STGII 8 axis card and I'm trying to use it to retrofit a
> > Tree machine, I just redownloaded the cvs source tree and I see no
> > references to the model II card either 8 and 4 axis in the
> Makefile.
> > 
> >   also found a set of files named as newstg.XX and would like to
> know
> > what they are used to (maybe the new pci boards??).
> > 
> > thanks,
> > esv.
> > ps. I found where the interrupt is set, the .h files!!!
> > 
> > 
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> 
> newstgmod.o is compiled from a rewrite of the ServoToGo driver. It
> should work with
> both model I and model II cards as well as both 4 axis and 8 axis
> cards and it fixes a problem with
> the index pulse latching in the older model II driver but its a
> relatively recent edition and only 
> tested on one machine( on which 4 axis model I and model II cards
> were swapped in and out). It 
> includes code from servo to go to query the board to determine if its
> a 4 axis or 8 axis board but 
> since I only had the two 4 axis boards working and available at the
> moment. I'd feel more confident 
> about it if someone would test it with an 8 axis board.
> 
> 
> The other possibility is to compile the older stg2.c with the
> -DSTG_8_AXES flag.
> 
> to do this
> 
> cd emc/src/emcmot
> 
> make PLAT=rtlinux_?? LOCAL_CFLAGS=-DSTG_8_AXES clean stg2mod
> 
> (replace ?? with rtlinux version i.e rtlinux_3_0)
> 
> Then use stg2mod.o now built for 8 axes.
> 
> -- Will
> 
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