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Maren Purves via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Mon, 11 Feb 2019 13:44:19 -1000

Thank you very much for all of that!

Maren

On 2/10/19 23:53, Dirk Zimoch via Tech-talk wrote:

Ehm... I screwed up the file names. The chip Name is like "M48T37" and

the file and function names should have matched. Sorry. Here are the

fixed files.

Dirk

On 11.02.19 10:43, Dirk Zimoch via Tech-talk wrote:

Hi Maren,

Attached find my driver for the M48T37 Timekeeper battery status. It

works with any EPICS version on MVME51xx as well as on MVME23xx, maybe

on more boards using this chip.

I have some more code to read and set the RTC and use the alarm

function of the M48T37 in case you need it.

The code is vxWorks only.

Be aware that the M48T37 reads the battery status only once at

power-on. So there is no point in processing the record more often

than PINI=YES.

Dirk

On 09.02.19 02:06, Maren Purves wrote:

Happy to, thanks Dirk!

On 2/8/19 05:35, Dirk Zimoch via Tech-talk wrote:

I am just now writing a driver for it. Wait a few days please...

On 08.02.19 03:01, Maren Purves via Tech-talk wrote:

Hi all,

I'm working on some monitoring stuff for a new receiver
and as the new receiver isn't here yet I just got a spare
mvme5100 board. Trying to boot it I found that it had
'forgotten' its boot parameters. It is supposed to have
a replaceable battery and we found on part that looks like
it may be a battery but with no part number or anything on
it.
None of the manuals I found on-line has a board layout
with labels on it that would tell me where the battery
is (assuming that the battery is the problem), or had
any specifications for it.
Pulling out another spare board, it behaved the same way.
If we have to put any of these spare boards into use that
would mean that they would have to have their boot parameters
reinstalled each time we have a power glitch. That's OK
for us here in the office/lab but not OK for people
operating telescopes at night.

Does anybody know and can either point me somewhere where
to find this information - or have the information and
pass it on?

Thanks in advance,
Maren Purves
East Asian Observatory

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System