Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Folks,

 

I have a Delta Tau GeoBrick 8-channel system.  I have been using it with the Model 2 driver (not based on asynMotorDriver) in the tpmac repository: https://github.com/epics-modules/tpmacc.  I had not seen any errors with that driver.

 

I have just updated it to use the Model 3 driver (based on asynMotorDriver) in the pmac repository: https://github.com/dls-controls/pmac

 

The motors seem to be driving OK.  However, the OPI screens show a Controller Error, and the poller prints this message:

 

2022/07/25 15:10:09.937 pmacController::fastUpdate *** Hardware Problem *** global status [???] => 8400913

 

The controller error is generated if this _expression_ is non-zero:

const epicsUInt32 pmacController::PMAC_HARDWARE_PROB = (PMAC_GSTATUS_REALTIME_INTR |

                                                        PMAC_GSTATUS_FLASH_ERROR |

                                                        PMAC_GSTATUS_DPRAM_ERROR |

                                                        PMAC_GSTATUS_CKSUM_ERROR |

                                                        PMAC_GSTATUS_WATCHDOG |

                                                        PMAC_GSTATUS_SERVO_ERROR);

 

 

That Global Status value 8400913 in hex is 0x803011.  This translates to the following status bits being set:

 

Bit	Symbolic constant	Problem bit in PMAC_HARDWARE_PROB?
0x1	PMAC_GSTATUS_CARD_ADDR	No
0x10	PMAC_GSTATUS_MACRO_RING_ERRORCHECK	No
0x1000	PMAC_GSTATUS_CKSUM_ACTIVE	No
0x2000	PMAC_GSTATUS_CKSUM_ERROR	Yes
0x800000	PMAC_GSTATUS_RESERVED3	No

 

So it appears that the Controller Error on the OPI screen and the error message being printed is because the PMAC_GSTATUS_CKSUM_ERROR bit is set.

 

Does anyone know what that bit means, and why it might be set?

 

Thanks,

Mark