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Mach and motion control card - is parallel port needed at all?
« on: February 22, 2007, 05:30:17 PM »
With a Grex or Galil motion control running over Enet, is the parallel port needed at all? Is the parallel port driver needed at all? I ask because I have a bizarre wish to run on a computer with no parallel port. It looks like these motion control cards have everything that would be needed and probably overall a better way to connect stuff.

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Re: Mach and motion control card - is parallel port needed at all?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2007, 07:48:31 PM »
When using one of the motion control cards with Mach, you can't use the parallel port. Since you can't use it, you probably don't need it. ;)
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Re: Mach and motion control card - is parallel port needed at all?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2007, 08:24:28 PM »
Following up: and therefore you do not need to load the driver?

I assume no, but if Mach is dependent on some sort of low level patch to achieve acceptable interrupt latency, and this patch is in the driver, then perhaps you need the driver. I just want to make sure.