[Geo Brick Drive - Collecting register data over USB, Ethernet, or Serial.]

Thanks Steve.  Which manual references "PMAC ASCII" ?

[Geo Brick Drive - Collecting register data over USB, Ethernet, or Serial.]

I have several machines with Geo Brick drives where I need to collect register data near real time.  Currently the PC running custom HMI is connected to the drive over USB.  I can't seem to find a definite answer in the docs (yet), so I thought to ask it here.

Can I create a separate .NET 3.5 application on the same PC and create a secondary connection, through PCommServer, for my purposes to the same drive?

Can I make an ethernet connection while USB connection is in use?  If so, is this a straight ASCII exchange or do I need to go through PCommServer libraries?

Finally, does the RS232 serial port support straight ASCII command-response exchange, without additional libraries (so that I could run my code on a Linux box)?

 

Thank You

Chris