Re: Failure probing for event generator

["Ernest L. Williams Jr." <ernesto@ornl.gov>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:50 +0200, Korhonen Timo wrote:
> Hi Dayle,
> 
> although the problem was solved with Ge, I summarize it here as other 
> people may have interest in this topic also.
> 
> The card was not recognized because it needs a special configuration 
> sequence.
> The EVG/EVR series 200 cards have been implemented according to the 
> CR/CSR specification in VME64/VME64x standard (chapter 10 in the VME64x 
> ANSI standard.) That is, before the cards are visible in the normally
> used access windows (A32,A24,A16,...) they have to be configured. This 
> configuration happens in a separate address space which is 
> geographically addressed (those who know PCI are familiar with the concept.)
> There are no jumpers or address switches to be set but on the other hand 
> if the configuration is not done the cards are not visible in the normal 
> windows.
> This would give many nice possibilities but unfortunately the concept is 
> poorly or not at all supported in vxWorks at least (one can of course 
> customize the BSP to have a window to the configuration address space.)
> 
> For the EVG/EVR 200-series we implemented a 'hack' where in the 
> eg/erConfigure the Tundra registers are saved, modified to give access 
> to the config address space, the card is configured and finally the 
> Tundra registers are restored to the original values. This is not the 
> best method but at least it works. Except for the problem that Ge had: 
> the mvme5100 BSP has a bug (or poor implementation) of sysBusToLocalAdrs
> routine and the dev support needed another hack to circumvent this bug.
> 
> Would the CR/CSR concept be worth a short talk and a discussion in the
> EPICS meeting?

I think it would be an awesome topic.




> 
> best regards,
> 
> Timo
> 
> 
> Dayle Kotturi wrote:
> > Hi Ge,
> > 
> > Three things I'd suggest (based on my experience with 100 series hardware):
> > 
> > 1) make sure your EVG is properly "seated" in the crate. Even if LEDs are
> > on, I've found that board can be incorrectly seated. This happened with
> > 64x VME crates.
> > 
> > 2) ensure the top rotary dial is set to '2' and the lower rotary dial is
> > set to '0'
> > 
> > 3) change your card number from '4' to '0' if you only have one EVG
> > 
> > Step (3) may not be necessary to get it working.
> > You need to get a '0' return code from EgConfigure before you can get
> > any further.
> > 
> > The same suggestions apply to EVR (rotaries at '1' and '8', change
> > card to '0'). For EVR only, check that jumpers are set to '5' as
> > is documented on the board itself.
> > 
> > Dayle Kotturi
> > LINAC Coherent Light Source
> > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Lei Ge wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm testing the event generator EVG200, but my IOC failed to probing the
> >>event-generator board. Could somebody give me some suggestions? Thank you
> >>very much.
> >>---------------------------------------------------------
> >>EgConfigure(4,0x2000)
> >>value = -1 = 0xffffffff = prsrv_cast_client + 0xff0f7b3f
> >>ErConfigure(6,0x1800,164,5)
> >>value = -1 = 0xffffffff = prsrv_cast_client + 0xff0f7b3f
> >>
> >>cd "/home21/home/leige/epicsApp/dbd"
> >>value = 0 = 0x0
> >>dbLoadDatabase("baseApp.dbd")
> >>devApsEg: Failure probing for event generator... Card disabled
> >>devApsEr: Failure probing for event receiver... Card disabled
> >>value = 0 = 0x0
> >>dbLoadDatabase("evgevr.dbd")
> >>value = 0 = 0x0
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>Best wishes,
> >>
> >>Ge
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
>