RE: PCI I/O cards


Eric,
I must admit that it is overdue.  Other than that all I can say is that 
it's in the works.
Don

At 01:32 PM 12/10/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Don,
>Where is my pci card?
>Eric
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: emc-at-nist.gov [emc-at-nist.gov]On Behalf Of Don McLane
>Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 8:29 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: PCI I/O cards
>
>
>
>The STG card has 32 bits of digital input.  Isn't that enough?  Of course,
>we're not PCI yet.
>
>Don McLane
>Servo To Go, Inc.
>
>At 11:46 AM 11/30/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> >Calling Linux programmers,
> >
> >My EMC application requires more I/O than is presently configured to the
> >parallel port with the Bridgeport "plc".
> >I am hoping to move the parallel port stuff (lube,spindle,coolant,estop) to
> >a Sealevel PCI Bus 48 TTL Digital I/O Interface as well as incorporate the
> >remaining I/O.
> >(8 tool limit switches, remote pendant functions, x and y axis brakes)
> >The software that came with the Sealevel card has two steps:
> >step 1.  =  install drivers.  This worked and prompted installation
> >complete.
> >step 2.  =  load drivers.  This uses the mknod command to create device
> >special files.  Running the load drivers resulted in :  mknod: wrong number
> >of arguments
> >The manufacturer of the card (Sealevel) assures me that the program works
>on
> >Linux.
> >How can I read and write to this PCI card the way I do with the Servo to Go
> >card.
> >
> >The next step will be to include STG analog inputs of spindle speed and
> >spindle load on the Tkemex Gui.  Ray says the GUI stuff is the easy part.
> >
> >Kurtis
> >
> >
> >
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> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> >Calling Linux programmers,
> >
> >My EMC application requires more I/O than is presently configured to the
> >parallel port with the Bridgeport "plc".
> >I am hoping to move the parallel port stuff (lube,spindle,coolant,estop)
> >to a Sealevel PCI Bus 48 TTL Digital I/O Interface as well as incorporate
> >the remaining I/O.
> >(8 tool limit switches, remote pendant functions, x and y axis brakes)
> >The software that came with the Sealevel card has two steps:
> >step 1.  =  install drivers.  This worked and prompted installation
>complete.
> >step 2.  =  load drivers.  This uses the mknod command to create device
> >special files.  Running the load drivers resulted in :  mknod: wrong
> >number of arguments
> >The manufacturer of the card (Sealevel) assures me that the program works
> >on Linux.
> >How can I read and write to this PCI card the way I do with the Servo to
> >Go card.
> >
> >The next step will be to include STG analog inputs of spindle speed and
> >spindle load on the Tkemex Gui.  Ray says the GUI stuff is the easy part.
> >
> >Kurtis
> >
> >
> >
> >
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