Turret Rotating to fast and missing steps

I'd strongly suggest to setup things up step by step. So in your Boxford.ini I'd comment out all the parallel port pins for now (some don't apply to your system and others will need to be adjusted):

#setp parport.0.pin-01-out-invert 1
#net spindle-pwm => parport.0.pin-01-out

#net astep => parport.0.pin-02-out
#setp parport.0.pin-02-out-reset 1
#net adir => parport.0.pin-03-out

#net zstep => parport.0.pin-04-out
#setp parport.0.pin-04-out-reset 1
#net zdir => parport.0.pin-05-out

#net xstep => parport.0.pin-06-out
#setp parport.0.pin-06-out-reset 1
#net xdir => parport.0.pin-07-out

#net spindle-cw => parport.0.pin-08-out
#net spindle-ccw => parport.0.pin-09-out
#net spindle-on => parport.0.pin-17-out

#net spindle-phase-a <= parport.0.pin-11-in
#net spindle-phase-b <= parport.0.pin-10-in
#net spindle-index <= parport.0.pin-12-in

#net all-home <= parport.0.pin-13-in
#net estop-ext <= parport.0.pin-15-in



Looking at your original hal file it seems that your break out board need a charge pump so you might want to add those to the Boxford.hal and see if you can get that working:

loadrt charge_pump
addf charge-pump base-thread
net estop-out charge-pump.enable iocontrol.0.user-enable-out
net charge-pump <= charge-pump.out

Then before working on the motors you'll need to copy the motor values from the [AXIS_] sections of the original .ini to the [JOINT_] sections of the Boxford.ini file as this was changed in version 2.8.

MAX_VELOCITY = 47.5
MAX_ACCELERATION = 300.0
STEPGEN_MAXACCEL = 375.0
SCALE = 200.0

Right now you wouldn't have to change any of the hardware as we are just working on getting the machine running as you had it before.

As for the spindle, looking at your old config it looks like you can set the spindle speed using PWM on pin14 of the parallel port if you want to change the spindle direction from LinuxCNC then we would have to have more information on how you drive your spindle. ie are you running it on a VFD? If it's just a matter of the spindle not starting in correct direction and you don't need to reverse the spindle from the software then it's a matter that would have to be solved in the spindle drive or the motor wiring depending on the setup .

Sure, report back when you have time to test things.

Sounds like you haven't got the estop signals right in the hal file. I think the boxford config uses an external estop signal while you might not.

Generally speaking, you need to compare the Boxford.hal and your original .hal file that was used to run the machine before. eg

in Boxford.hal you see line 88:

net estop-ext       <= parport.0.pin-15-in

that tells you that there is an external estop signal configured to come in on pin15 of the parallel port.  Then there is this at the very end of the file (lines 151-153):

net estop-out <= iocontrol.0.user-enable-out
#net estop-ext => iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in   stepgen.2.enable
net estop-ext <= iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in => toolchanger.enable => stepgen.2.enable


In you original Mach3Turn_2022-09-17-2.hal you have only this:
net estop-out <= iocontrol.0.user-enable-out
net estop-out => iocontrol.0.emc-enable-in

So if you still don't have an external estop signal you might want to try to comment out (#) the lines that don't apply to your situation and add the lines that were used in the original config.