Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"S. Joshua Stein" <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Aug 2002 07:31:38 -0500

Eric, 


 The two values I seem to have access to via telnet to the gateway are:

Lan Timeout : 10 (seconds)
IO-Timoute  : 120 (seconds)


Eric Norum wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 11:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > I am using the HP (Agilent) E2050A Lan /GPIB gateway with Epics 3.14b2.
> > I have some device support for a scope which I've modified from pre
> > 3.14 - and it's running on a solaris IOC. If I leave the device (the
> > gateway) unaddressed for a 'long' period of time (~30 minutes) and then
> > send a command to a GPIB instrument, I receive the following message:
> >
> > hpWriteCmd(142f28, 1320b4, 1): RPC: Unable to receive; An event
> > requires attention
> >
> > At this point, the only way to re-establish communications is to
> > "reboot" the ioc.
> >
> > Any ideas here?
> >
> >
> 
> What values do you have the 2050A communication timeouts set to?
> 
> --
> Eric Norum <[email protected]>
> Department of Electrical Engineering
> University of Saskatchewan
> Saskatoon, Canada.
> Phone: (306) 966-5394   FAX:   (306) 966-5407

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