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What drives do those machines use?
Are they parallel port controlled?
Do they have some kind of BOB or controller?
Or, how are those machines connected to PC now?

HI, I bought a 5i25t board and no daughter card. I want to run my existing hardware, a syilX3 mill and a plasma cutter. Is there a provided firmware that will run these machines or do I have to create a new one? If I have to create a new one what is the best tool to use for this? These are both basic stepper machines with 4 axis for the syil and 3 for plasma cutter.
Thanks in advance for you answers.

Also you may do better performance wise by using 2 windings in series for all drives
so 57V rather than 28.5V (assuming the drive is OK with 57VAC, )

28.5V is roughly equal to 40 VDC  and 57V is roughly equal to 80VDC

You would get better high speed performance with the 57VAC