Tiny Computer with Printer port

Hi,
thank you daughter name i couldn't guess of course ,.. .

What do you mean with faulty ? maybe i can be of some help.
i have the possibility to bring an Tormach Like VMC on the market and i want to have an basic version which is no fuzz stepper thing.
So my idea is to have that ncboxes mounted fixed if there is an problem they get fresh CF card and here we go ,..

so i will contact the factory to see what kind of bulk price they do and how they can support
in the pro version i use an ITX Motherboard and FPGA PCI Card to drive the servos ,..
I would love to have an actual 2.6 live DVD install on the NCBOX but that might not happened
So i got arc eyes image and an linuxcnc 2.5.2 to work i got an patched 8.04 Linuxcnc but compiled 2.6.x version to run
And i will now use your image as an starting point to see where it gets me

What do you mean back to drawing board ? what fore did you use your ncbox ?
thx
thomas

My NCBox parallel ports do not output commands given to them. It appears the IO chip is faulty. Thought it might be the Kernel I had compiled and went back to booting off a USB to the live 8.04 version and it still does not work. Downloaded a parport testing program, and alas the ports do not output as they are supposed to.
The NCbox took around 1 month to arrive here in Oz, not game to wait that long for another computer. So I am looking at other solutions. Plus the NCbox latency is not all that good.
I had a mini Itx motherboard that ran 8.04 OK and latency was 28k. But the mill worked, until the motherboard failure. So I started looking for something dedicated to running it.
I might get another small ITX with parport from ebay and carry on. The NCbox was a good idea, but frustrating with the CF card.
I'm also looking at Arduino gcode interpreters grbl, and might use the NCbox as a linux desktop to run zap maker as thats all USB controlled. So all is not lost.
Really want my machine running....I miss the fun of hitting the emergency stop........
Col

Your ASrock looks nice with good Ubuntu reviews, but I see no parport anywhere on it??? (I could probably fix his warm booting issues.. . )

www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product...Item=N82E16813157495

OK price though.

I've tested both the addresses they give on the ports for the NCBox. If you get it wrong, you get nothing out of it. If you get the address right, you get some signals out of it, with several pins mirroring what should be there. I've got them all pulled low with 5k resistors on the main data bits. I thought it might be me, but I had an electronics mate over the other day, and over a beer we pronounced the LPT useless. So I either spend another $200 on a motherboard.....or find another way.....

Cheers
Col

Hi I unfortunately also have buyed the SROCK D1800B-ITX which wasn't so good pecause i also have an FPGA PCI card ,..
in my Bridgeport Project i use Mainboard FOXCONN D52S, Mini-ITX which works very well but the Foxconn is not avail any More
last week i got as my new dev board an Gigabyte GA-H81N-D2H which has an PCI Card (would be fine for General Mechatronics or Mesa ) and has an serial and parallel port.
Which has an wired pin layout so i have to do an 2x13 to DB25 Connector
this weekend i´ll test that they already have the new live cd onboard so far all looks good but i still would like to get the NC Box to work for an cheap industrial solution
Question i learned of an friend who do embedded devices that CF cards die early ?
Does anybody know if that is true and if yes is there an CF Pinout SSD Disk avail ?
i searched but didn't find it
thx
thomas
Ps. And also would expect to pull-up ,..

There are a couple of Mini-ITX J1800, J1900 motherboards with PCI (and parallel port)

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item...13-132-104-_-Product
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item...13-128-698-_-Product

Heres a Micro-ATX J1900 motherboard with parallel and 2 PCI slots:

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item...13-157-565-_-Product

Yes, the Q1900 will only work with the 6i25 rather than any other Mesa card. Which means than none of the 50-pin daughter cards can be used.

The 6I24 is a option for a Mesa card (as are the Ethernet cards)