Re: A couple of questions...

[Paul <paul-at-bdiemc.fslife.co.uk>]

Hi Patrick

Pondering over your questions and reviewing earlier posts, I see you did an 
upgrade using the EMC-2.18 rpm package - Some changes were made to the source 
code since BDI-2.10 was released. The most notable being the 
PARPORT_IO_ADDRESS has been changed to IO_BASE_ADDRESS. Check to see which is 
used in the [EMCMOT] and [EMCIO] sections.

MOTION_IO_ADDRESS is/was intended for IO control that is synchronized with 
motion. i.e. For turning a laser on or off at the exact moment a move 
commences or finishes. This requires laser support to be compiled in.

The "analog out bits" refer to analogue outputs of the type found on Servo To 
Go cards - Using "bits" instead of "lines" or "pins" is probably a bit 
misleading.

Regards, Paul.


On Monday 12 May 2003 9:41 pm, P.K. Ferrick wrote:
> which seems strange because I am using minimillio, which apparently does
> not use aux io for estop sense etc. like bridgeportio.  No combination
> of values in emc.ini relating to estop seems to affect this, and there's
> some stuff in there that's kind of confusing.
>
> For example, what's the MOTION_IO_ADDRESS about?
> What should I do with the "digital out bits section if I have no aux io
> port?
> And what about analog out bits?

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