Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:02:38 -0700

Vladis,

You will need to move up to EPICS R3.13.5 to use Tornado II.
Tornado II has a new IP kernel. The network interface query
interface was not backwards compatible and so changes were 
required in CA. EPICS R3.13.5 will work with either
Tornado II or Tornado I depending on which version it was built
against. You will need to completely rebuild EPICS base. 

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladis Korobov [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: CA online suspended diring EPICS initialization.
> 
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I work with Epics R3.13.1 for PPC (MVME2306). I installed the second Ethernet
> interface board (TPMC880). Since the driver delivered with the board was
> developed under Tornado 2.0, I switched also to Tornado 2.0, vxWorks 5.4
> (previously I worked under Tornado 1.0.1, vxWorks 5.3). I've made all the
> necessary changes in vxWorks image to add the second interface as "dc"
> unit 1 (as it was recommended by the board developers).
> 
> I changed the default port number for CA by
> 'putenv("EPICS_CA_SERVER_PORT=6025")' shell command before the EPICS
> initialization.
> 
> Just for testing I downloaded a database consisting of the only waveform
> record. The EPICS initialization didn't finish properly. I had the following
> messages after iocInit:
> 
> > iocInit
> > ############################################################################
> > ###  @(#)EPICS IOC CORE
> > ###  @(#)Version R3.13.1..0 $$Date: 1999/11/09 09:47:55 $$
> > ############################################################################
> > Starting iocInit
> > CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
> > CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
> > CAC: net intf flags fetch for  failed
> > value = 0 = 0x0
> >
> > iocInit: All initialization complete
> >
> > data access
> > Exception current instruction address: 0x0018e7f4
> > Machine Status Register: 0x0000b030
> > Data Access Register: 0xcc576950
> > Condition Register: 0x22000042
> > Data storage interrupt Register: 0x40000000
> > Task: 0x19ed0a8 "CA online"
> >
> > filename="../taskwd.c" line number=175
> > task 19ed0a8 CA online suspended
> 
> Then in some while I got:
> 
> > 0x1bbd0e8 (tNetTask): arptnew failed on 83a970bd
> 
> 
> I didn't attach still the second interface.
> 
> I rebooted the PPC using unchanged vxWorks image. But with the same
> result. What could be the cause of such behaviour?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any advice or help,
> 
> V.Korobov
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System