Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Jeff Hill) · Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:46:18 -0700

John,

WRS changed one of their API's between 5.3 and 5.4 and so I will need
to back patch the changes I have made in EPICS 3.14 for vxWorks 5.4
into 3.13.2. It may also be possible to install the original vxWorks
IP kernel into vxWorks 5.4?

I have had some problems with the new WRS Tornado II SENS networking
system seizing up during stress testing. I don't know if this is
caused directly by the switch to SENS or by the new driver for our
10/100 PCI Ethernet interface card that is included with SENS in
Tornado II. We will need to run my stress test against some other
Tornado II system that does not use our 10/100 PCI Ethernet card.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hammonds, John [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:58 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: EPICS 3.13.2 and vxWorks 5.4
>
>
> I have been working for a couple of days trying to use these two together
> and saw Jeff's message about possible incomapatibilities.  I have been
> trying to upgrade an existing system to both vxWorks 5.4 and EPICS 3.13.2.
> I have got things down to try and boot.  Everthing works until
> iocInit.  As
> soon as I run this I get the following messages:
>
>
> iochrcs2> iocInit
>
> ##################################################################
> ##########
>
> ###  @(#)EPICS IOC CORE built on Jan  4 2000
>
> ###  @(#)Version R3.13.2 $$Date: 1999/12/17 16:04:35 $$
>
> ##################################################################
> ##########
>
> Starting iocInit
>
>
>
> Illegal Instruction
>
> Program Counter: 0x00000008
>
> Status Register: 0x3008
>
>
>
> shell restarted.
>
>
>
> iochrcs2> CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
>
> CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
>
> CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
>
>
>
> iochrcs2>
>
>
>
> Does this mean anything to anyone?  I am using an MVME167 in a VXI system.
>
> John Hammonds
> Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
> Argonne National Laboratory
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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