Trying to find a good PCIe parallel port card is very hit or miss, generally more miss than hit. It's much safer to either stick with PCI bus for a PP adapter or just buy a Mesa PCIe or ethernet card and put the 7i43 on the shelf.
Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -----Original Message----- From: gene heskett <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 7:08 PM To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] motherboard that plays well with 7i43 [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Be sure links are safe. On Sunday, January 30, 2022 4:47:15 PM EST Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > The difficulty is finding a PCIe parallel port card that does the > Enhanced Parallel Port protocol (EPP) correctly and reliability. > > When I last looked into it, years ago, the situation was terrible: > manufacturers would make parallel port cards with totally different > chipsets and behaviors, sold under the same model name. It was > impossible to tell. This is no guarantee, Seb is correct, but I've had better luck in most depts with startech branded stuff. > >Is there any disadvantage to placing a PCIe-based Parallel port card > >on a normal PC? > > > >On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:36 AM andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 18:18, dave engvall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I'm looking for users that are actually using a motherboard with > >> > a > >> > 7i43 and can recommend candidate boards from experience. Thanks > >> > in advance. > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flist > s.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Femc-users&data=04%7C01%7Cto > ddz%40pgrahamdunn.com%7C49624040271b4419f04e08d9e44de24d%7C5758544c573 > f47cebee96c3e0806fb43%7C0%7C0%7C637791845441826958%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZ > sb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3 > D%7C3000&sdata=OEat7YErOZ218SPkH%2B4FailRRbM6Pg02HBhukcPK7vc%3D&am > p;reserved=0 > . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgeneslinuxbox.net%3A6309%2Fgene&data=04%7C01%7Ctoddz%40pgrahamdunn.com%7C49624040271b4419f04e08d9e44de24d%7C5758544c573f47cebee96c3e0806fb43%7C0%7C0%7C637791845441826958%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=3Gd5kPHdLHF5z6zm4HFrPL6ne81fD16pZREEtZqTmNc%3D&reserved=0> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.sourceforge.net%2Flists%2Flistinfo%2Femc-users&data=04%7C01%7Ctoddz%40pgrahamdunn.com%7C49624040271b4419f04e08d9e44de24d%7C5758544c573f47cebee96c3e0806fb43%7C0%7C0%7C637791845441826958%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=OEat7YErOZ218SPkH%2B4FailRRbM6Pg02HBhukcPK7vc%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
