Galil 2183

Does anyone have or know of a driver to support a Galil 2183 controller?

Regards,
Jeff

I don't think so.

LinuxCNC is itself a motion controller, if it is asked to control another motion controller (like Galil) then things get confusing pretty quickly.

Won't that be the same case with using Mach 3 which I have working with a Galil driver?

No, Mach 3/4 offloads its motion operations to buffered external devices
(the only exceptions to this are the parallel port versions of Mach)

LinuxCNC does these operations internally and then communicates to non buffered
external devices in real time (typically 1000 time a second) so requires different kinds
of hardware interface devices than Mach

So what is the recommendation for hardware?
My machine is a Well Index 833 CNC version, Electro-craft servo motors (5 axis) the original Sherona servo drive.

Thanks,
Jeff

jeffgold@comcast.net wrote: So what is the recommendation for hardware?

What is wrong with the original controller?

If you have the Galil cards and they still work it might make sense to keep them and simply use something other than LinuxCNC.

I don't know what the options are there, but I see that there is a Mach3 plugin and that might actually be the sensible choice in this situation.