On Wednesday 19 September 2018 16:49:59 Peter C. Wallace wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > My little lathe is doing funny things with the z axis.
> > The halmeter menu cannot find the joint.1.motor-pos-cmd output to
> > monitor it.
> >
> > Since is the 1st 5i25 I've put in service quite a few years back,
> > and it is supposed to have a 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit file in it, same as
> > in my G0704 mill, I thought I'd verify it, but didn't get too far.
> >
> > This command line:
> >
> > sudo mesaflash --device 5i25 --verify 5i25_prob_rfx2.bit
> > says boot ok, then gets to 0x1000EA where it expects to read an
> > 0x10, but gets an 0x00 and exits with the error.
>
> You cannot in general verify stored bitfiles against current bitfiles
> as even a re-compile will change the bitfile contents so verify will
> fail.
>
> > Do I have a forgetfull card?  Or is it actually programmed to some
> > other bitfile? This, being the original card I bought, was
> > preprogrammed when I ordered it all those years ago.
> >
> > How should I proceed?
>
> No need to do anything really, a card cannot forget even a single bit
> or it will not load the firmware from the flash chip (it will have a
> CRC error and fallback to the alternate configuration which 1. Will
> blink the red INIT light, 2. Is a justio config that has nothing but
> GPIO)
>
In that event, where are the missing pins?

Z moves normally when the key is held down. Then runs on for an 
additional distance in the same direction.  A 6.35mm move, moves the 
6.35mm's, then drops to about .001mm velocity for an additional 9 thou 
at which point the pos-cmd and motor-pos-fb finally match.  And its 
cumulative, ask it to move an inch (25.4mm's) at 500mm/min and it moves 
at that speed, then virtually stops, taking around a minute to arrive at 
matching counts, which can be an additional move of more than 20 thou at 
the end of the high speed move. So I have no instant control and that 
kills homing. The esc and f2 keys are ignored during this ultra slow 
final move. 

I'll do some more checking but that would be a lot easier to see if I 
could turn off geany's color as most of the vars and pin names are 
rendered in red.  And thats making my cataract problems worse. Black 
text on a white screen is ok, red on white not so much. If I can find 
someone to drive me on Oct 17, I get the first eye fixed, 2 weeks later 
the other one.

Thanks Peter.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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