Mesa, Linuxcnc with step direction servo's for axis and analog servo spindle.

It looks like 7I76E+7I77 firmware, but would need to see the pinout section to be sure

this is as much as i can fit in the screen. it should be 7i76e -7i77-7i64
 

That's 7I76E firmware for a 7I77 on P1

that sounds about right doesn't it. Im guessing the 7i64 is connected to the 7i77

The 7I64 could be connected to either the 7I76E or 7I77

(it would be channel 1 on the 7I76E or channel 4 on the 7I77)

the 7i64 is connected to the 7i77 through tb6 i believe it is. They need to make the printing bigger for us old guys.

now that we have checked my firmware, how do I blend my hal file for the step and direction on the 7i76e

Not sure what the easiest path is here but I see a couple options:

1. With pncconf, make a normal step/dir 7I76E configuration and a normal 7I77 configuration and merge them

2. Use pncconfs discover option

from what I can tell the pnconfig doesn't give the option for step/direction, and the stepper configurator doesn't do addressing other than parport, so the mesa addressing would have to all be put in later. Im not at the shop now so I can't show what the set up is now, but to me it looks like its analog when it need to be step and dir.. I did attach my hal and ini in the first post.

pncconf can setup step/dir and analog servo systems (they end up being very similar at the hal level)

That is, if you select a 7I76E in pnconf, the axis/joint setup is all step/dir as a 7I76E by
itself only supports step/dir motion.

If you setup say a 7I92+7I77 configuration, it will setup an analog servo system