Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: LPT1
Posted by
Jon Elson
on 2005-08-08 19:13:25 UTC
Mike Delany wrote:
long as the register bit and address offset assignment is the same as a
standard
parallel port, and the program can accomodate parallel ports at arbitrary
addresses, it should work. (Note that some DOS and other old programs
may restrict the address to between 100 - 3FF, and the PC-Card parallel
adaptor will often use a much higer I/O address.) I have used a PC-Card
parallel adaptor with other DOS software that used no OS driver, and it
worked just fine, once you figured out the address the PC-Card was mapped
to.
Jon
>I have been looking into the same thing. It looks like doing anything CNCPCMCIA (later renamed PC-Card) is basically just a CPU bus interface, so as
>over USB is pretty iffy. USB uses a packet based transport mechanism that
>can interfere with signal timing. There are supposed to be some
>workarounds, but according to Greg Kroah-Hartman (the guy who wrote the
>linux usb patch), they are not real pretty or efficient. I have thought
>about a PCMCIA to serial or parallel adapter, but I have not looked into
>how timing works on it. I think that you might be better off using a PC
>with a true parallel or serial port.
>
>
long as the register bit and address offset assignment is the same as a
standard
parallel port, and the program can accomodate parallel ports at arbitrary
addresses, it should work. (Note that some DOS and other old programs
may restrict the address to between 100 - 3FF, and the PC-Card parallel
adaptor will often use a much higer I/O address.) I have used a PC-Card
parallel adaptor with other DOS software that used no OS driver, and it
worked just fine, once you figured out the address the PC-Card was mapped
to.
Jon
Discussion Thread
stcnc2000
2005-08-07 11:30:01 UTC
LPT1
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2005-08-07 11:42:26 UTC
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2005-08-07 12:05:53 UTC
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2005-08-07 12:38:04 UTC
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2005-08-07 12:50:39 UTC
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2005-08-07 15:10:47 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: LPT1
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2005-08-07 15:19:12 UTC
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2005-08-07 15:38:24 UTC
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2005-08-07 17:30:46 UTC
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2005-08-07 21:24:49 UTC
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2005-08-08 14:01:21 UTC
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2005-08-08 14:11:59 UTC
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2005-08-08 14:19:46 UTC
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2005-08-08 14:27:36 UTC
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2005-08-08 14:45:39 UTC
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2005-08-08 15:09:04 UTC
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2005-08-08 17:47:51 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: LPT1
Jon Elson
2005-08-08 19:13:25 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: LPT1
Keith Bucklitch
2005-08-09 09:26:26 UTC
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2005-08-09 09:26:26 UTC
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2005-08-09 09:26:26 UTC
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2005-08-09 13:15:39 UTC
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2005-08-09 14:41:51 UTC
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2005-08-09 18:09:48 UTC
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2005-08-09 18:58:16 UTC
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2005-08-09 22:12:17 UTC
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2005-08-09 22:24:01 UTC
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2005-08-10 01:40:31 UTC
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2005-08-10 03:12:13 UTC
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2005-08-10 09:57:50 UTC
Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: LPT1