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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 07:00:44 PM »

Your probably better off just creating a new one. But if  there a selection that looks good go for it, you can always just change the settings..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 06:47:12 PM »

Sage:

 Its not the files. The 1.11 is  fine, its the darwin.sys file. Go to the control panel, select system icon, then device manager. Under Mach pulse engines youll see Darwin.sys. Right click and select uninstall. Then.. do the the unzipped folder of files from the last update. Run  DriverTest.exe and it should install the latest driver. The version will then show 1.16.
  Your dll and plugin are fine... its the sys file thats killing you...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 05:38:27 PM »

So just to be clear, the driver version is 1.16, the plugin on the m4 screen will read in the config selector will also read 1.16 as the plugin version,
and the dll version is 1.11 ( shown just above the drivers 1.16 verison on the waterfall screen. Ive verified the files are correct in the zip file for
those versions. (Sorry for so  many versions, but there are 3 important components and they all have their own version, as well as separate compilers..


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 05:34:55 PM »

Sage:

  The 1.16 is the version of the system driver, to change it..you need to use the control panels hardware manager to remove the old Darwin driver. Then run DriverTest from the unzipped 1-16-4 folder you downloaded. It "should" install the new driver which will then read 1.16 on the waterfall screen.

 If it doesnt, your installing a cache version of the driver, so remove the driver, find all copies of darwin.sys and delete them, except for the one in the
1-16-4 folder.. Then it should install. I try very hard to try to make it so its a rare event because so many have trouble switching drivers. In the end Brian will probably put an installer for it in its package.

  Anyway, when you get it to read 1.16 as the driver version you should be OK..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 04:45:46 PM »

Sage:

  No sorry, I wasnt clear. The driver needs replacing on this version. Versions should read..

1.11 and 1.16 on the Drawin waterfall screen... You need to replace the driver , dll looks good.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 03:44:22 PM »

Pete:

 Wit recent versions you can always tell if its m4 config or Darwin ignoring you. The history button will tell you if
Darwin was instructed to turn on or off any signal.

   The problem with pin 14 was I was inverting it when reading it, and not when writing it, that was a typo that
caused that very strange pin 14 toggling error I think. We noticed a pin14 flash at startup here, which is gone in
last version. As to whats causing the pin mirroring.. Im still confused.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 03:17:17 PM »

Pete:

 I think its because there is no scipt in those macros to activate them...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 01:33:15 PM »

Sage:

 Havent seen any lockup yet, but I did discover a typo that could cause a problem on pin 14, try this version...

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 12:43:05 PM »

.. of course. I think I see. By starting with a mask of zero's , Im forcing a toggle on you, what it proves is that the port resets iwth an active 1 coming out. The program then starts and pulls it low. Ill fix that up...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 12:11:46 PM »

Sorry, I take that back.. internally the driver starts with a zero integer, then fills it one by one with active signals, so
any pin not refered to will be set to a zero .. which should be a low on the output.. but of course that could be triggering your relay
since most ports default to a high on the data pins..

Art