Ethercat drive configuration woes

If I get time tonight I will implement the EK1100 and see how the system behaves from there

I'm glad to hear it's not just me getting the drive connection issue.

Wazza, out of curiosity, does FireFox open on your Pi?

There is only Chromium installed and no it won't run. I didn't get time last night to run the EK1100 but I will see what I can do, I'm curious if it followed what happened with you where it didn't configure the first drive but worked for the rest if it will configure the EK1100 end then the drive

Ah yeah, it's Chromium as default on Raspian.
I did find that if you remove Chromium, Dillo works, but that's much use for any site designed since the 90s, and I couldn't get Firefox to even install.
I was wondering if it was because I only tried a 2GB Pi, but obviously that isn't the problem.

In case you've not realised yet, don't try updating the Pi. It'll try updating the kernel, at which point the installer fails, you then won't be able to boot the Pi again, and the OS will need re-installed.

I think the first drive thing was a false flag on my part, and it's all to do with ensuring the drives aren't connected during booting.
I thought at one point I had to have a drive connected for the master/LinuxCNC to load, but the unplugging discovery was made having spent several hours trying various things.
It was only when I started fresh that I realised you could leave all the drives unplugged during loading.

I don't really have a use for a web browser. this unit will be for a plasma table and I will just transfer files to it. about the first drive, it should still be interesting to see if the EK1100 will start ok. i just need to steal it from my mill. its set up with estun servos for probably 8 or 9 years now with a mini pc the cia402 component really makes things easy to set up now, I think I will do a refresh of the mill setup and use the 402 and have a look at the new homing setup

Yeah, once installed a machine I wouldn't really care about a browser, but it's a bit of a pain when setting things up.

Can't copy and paste commands, and have to use a USB stick to copy any files off the Pi.
I'm probably going to move back to the Pi for testing, as I need to put the itx board back in my mill.