Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Way back in the day, I had a similar problem with the
Allen-Bradley 6008SV communicating to the remote I/O. It
was caused by pending interrupts at the time of the
reboot. If you disable interrupts in a rebootHookAdd
routine and wait some small amount of time, the interrupts
should clear. (If this is a similar problem that is)
Bob
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:49:14 -0000
"Woods, PD (Paul)" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to interface a PLC to EPICS using the DF1
serial comms protocol
with a GreenSpring GSOctal RS232 IP module on a Hytec
HY8002 carrier board.
Everything seems to work fine until I need to reboot the
IOC. If I use a
soft reboot (ie 'reboot' command or CTRL-X from a
terminal) VxWorks will
fail during bootup with a workQPanic and attempt a reboot
and I'm stuck in a
loop. However a hardware reset reboots normally and the
IOC then runs
happily.
Our current theory is that something (the GSOctal card?)
is not reset
correctly with a soft reboot and as the PLC continues to
transmit after the
comms are lost, the GSOctal card continues to send
interrupts. As soon as
the drivers are loaded, but before they are initialised,
an interrupt is
sent, causing VxWorks to workQPanic and reboot.
I am about to do some hardware checking of the reset line
to confirm this,
but has anyone else seen this problem? do you have an
explanation for it and
is there a solution/workaround?
Regards
Paul Woods
Diamond Project UK
Bob Dalesio
[email protected]
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505 667 3414 Los Alamos
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