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Use win32diskimager.org/ to write the ISO to the USB drive. It's dumb in the way it will just write byte by byte and not try to do anything fancy.

Despite my misgivings and boneheadedness I shall experiment with your suggestion.
If anything goes wrong I shall visit the local coven and take appropriate action.

My work experience has been a little different, many years labouring and doing install and repairs to play equipment, road work and traffic control. What this has taught me is that people aren't that a fair percentage of people are lucky to breathe and walk at the same time. So I try to accommodate for the lowest common denominator.
Take for instance when I used to work on the railways during a weekend shutdown. Signs every informing passengers the train service has been replaced by a bus service. Panels of track that have been pulled up, and people sitting on the platform asking when the nest train is due.
So yeah no actual experience in the computer field as a professional, but way too much dealings with The General Public hahaha.

Tho there were times as a Traffic Controller when the temps were in the high 40c that some residents would offer cold drinks. Or night shift in the middle of winter when someone would bring out a hot chocolate.

Can anyone tell me the difference(s) between calling an ngc routine with .mdi("o<myfunction> call") and .program_open("myfunction.ngc")?

Glad you got it sorted out! Enjoy probing!

That's a much easier method! Glad you got it sorted out!

Glad you got it sorted, I will add this to the docs for the next release

Hi, Sorry, please bear with me, I'm new here and relatively new to LinuxCNC.I've been converting an old Boxford 240 TCL to LinuxCNC running on a Pi5. 

Everything is running fine(ish) there are still some glitches and errors that crop up and the odd latency warning too (stepping is done on an EC300 running remora so I'm not so worried about the latency warning).

However... i've gotten to the point of testing, and for some reason in G95 and feeding at 0.1mm/rev the axis runs at way faster rate, 10x maybe more.Anyone have any idea what is going on?  The only other thing to note is that I am having issues with LinuxCNC seeing my index pulse, but it is seeing the count from the single encoder (100 slot disk with a second slotted opto switch for index so not quadrature). 
I'm assuming that its possible the feed issue could be linked to that.

The other issue I am having is when i run a program, it won't run through automatically.  The only way it will run is by me hitting the single step through button.  I'm wondering if that is linked to the encoder also as perhaps LinuxCNC isn't seeing "at speed" so isn't letting the program run?

hal and ini attached.  Please forgive the messy files, once they are running right I'm planning on cleaning them up. 

Good Evening,

I'm relatively new to LinuxCNC having come from Mach 3 on mills previously.  Having found mach3 limited for lathes I have moved over to LinuxCNC.  I have been/have converted an old Boxford 240 TCL to run on new steppers, and LinuxCNC running on a Pi5 connected to an ec300 running the remora firmware.

Everything in general is working fine, except the spindle encoder.  Annoyingly, it is not a quadrature encoder.  It is a 100ppr slotted disk with an additional index pulse.  Currently, this is feeding directly into the Pi5, which is reading the 100ppr but missing the index.

So, my plan is to move the encoder and index over to the ec300.  While i understand that the ec300 has a dedicated index input, I am unsure on using an encoder with remora.  I've read the docs, and have run through this thread but my head is spinning trying to get things straight. 

Does the EC300 have the ability for a hardware encoder?  if not, software would work too, I'm just not sure how to set up the encoder component as I do not have a B phase.

On the hardware side, I'm going to have to work out some electronics as the encoder as it stands is running on 3.3v with schmitt triggers for conditioning.  So I will have to come up with something to level shift this to 24v.

Any help that could be given on the remora side of things would be greatly appreciated.
 

9660. The DVD drive fails BIOS diagnostics. Spindle error. I am ordering a replacement drive. In the meantime, I used a USB DVD drive. The 2.9.2 disk would not boot. But an ancient disk from Sherline called EMC2 did boot and install from that USB DVD drive. This is so ancient that Update Manager does not work. I put 2.9.4 on the DVD. While trying to install, it complained about unmounting media failing. I suspect 2.9.4 ISO lacks the smarts to handle a USB DVD drive. I have successfully installed 2.7.14 before so that is next.