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My first Linixcnx setup using parallel port big thanks to my friend tommylight for the support  

Probably one for PCW
Is there any useful information available on TP<0> & TP<1> pads.

Cheers
Rob

The mesa manual for your card outlines it all.
the physical pins are generally numbered from 1 but the pin numbers start with 0

Is there a chart somewhere that correlates the 3 digit I/O number shown in pncconf with their physical terminal on the board?  I assume those 3 digit numbers are a number used by the firmware to represent the pin, but on the board, by the time you try and subtract out the power and ground pins, and try and figure out how many actual I/O pins an encoder or serial port uses, it's almost impossible to tell what's being configured.  I've been trying to compare with the board drawing from the Mesa 7i96 manual, and also with the actual board, and I'm coming up empty.

I'm referring to the 023 to 032 numbers in this screenshot.

 

Running
Give both the name of the card name & PCI ID

Here's one that might you lead you astray

Looking through /proc/ioports shows the serial port @3008 and the parallel port @3000

dmesg shows
0000:06:0d.0: ttyS4 at I/O 0x3008 (irq = 22, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x3000, irq 22 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]

Then there's info under /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0 (in the case of the first parallel port) the hal_parport gets it's info from and depending on what is found there, gives the message that started this all.

Just saying there seems to be a couple of ways to skin the cats.

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A photo would be nice. If I pull the quill in my top slide forward, it would break the hydraulic pipe at the rear elbow. It would be nice to see how your one allows movement. It's too blurry in your photo.
Before you remove the hydraulic ram you have to remove the screw in the clasp claws and unscrew the claw assembly. The when the hydraulic ram is removed all the springs come out with the ram. Maybe you draw rod is broken?
Cheers,
David

David
Yes and mine has the hand adjuster on the top slide same as the one in the photo
Makes it easy to adjust the Z spindle.
My phone camera is damaged. I have to replace it so I can send you some images
Cheers Chris

Indeed, I just tried it and I got the same result. I think this is an out of the box problem with these drives. I have a batch of 7 drives all having the same issue, while before they never had this issue.
I also checked, all the settings/parameters are the same with the working and not working drives. After opening them up, also internally they look the same.

I did recall you said you would be away.
I'll have a quick try on mine by simply loosening that clamp bolt. I didn't realize before that is all it takes.
With the hydraulic pipe elbow removed the assembly should come out whole.
Then the only tricky part was warming the thread on the hydraulic ram so the Locktite came free.

Hi,
for your information, I had the same issue.
I am currently debugging and check if it will work. I can then update you
Could also not compile it myself due to dependencies issues.

Hello David
Yes I have had the spindle our several times and lubricated the bearings with the special Kluber grease. The hydraulic unit comes off no problem but I cant get to the spring washers
On mine the very long drilling to the sight tube was clogged and it took a lot of rodding out to fix. It's hard to read through the sight hole
I will check this out. Thankyou
Cheers Chris .

Hi David
Sorry I have been away for a few days
Thanks for the photo and the description of the Z hydraulic pipe work .Now I am back on the job. I am reluctant to dismantle the Z hydraulic spring loaded tool gripper as I simply don't know what I am doing and risk damage to the unit. I will have another look tomorrow. I can remove and adjust the gripper but I cant get to see the spring washers and they could be the problem. Further the Z tool changer worked before I renewed the spindle grease so it has to be something I have done.
Cheers and thanks for your interest
Chris McMullen

Simi02 wrote:

@RotarySMP could I maybe ask you a few questions about your retrofit?

 

I would recommend you start a new thread for your 400E conversion. If you ask your questions in an unrelated thread like this, or my long 400E conversion thread, the answers become very hard for others to find.

@rodw excellent ! I couldn't spot any differences from x64 build