Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]> · Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:55:30 -0400

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 17:12 +0200, Andreas Isenegger wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Since I posted 2 e-mails in July 2005 seeking for help, I thought it would 
> be worth informing you that the problem could be solved.
> 
> There are indeed some bugs in Wind River's N/W driver (dec21x40End.h/c) that 
> cause the misbehavior of the IOC. I got new revisions of these files from 
> Martin Niedermair, WRS Austria, which solve the issue. Strangely enough, a 
> different support engineer of WRS sent me another revision of the same 
> files, which doesn't fix the bug. About 2 years back, they were branched... 
> . The latest official patch from WRS contains again different revisions of 
> the files.
> 
> Thus, if you are experiencing troubles with IOC's disconnecting for 'no 
> reasons', or reset ports of N/W switches to regain links to IOC's, build a 
> new VxWorks image with the latest revision of these files.
Can you send us a copy of the files or give us a rev. number to compare
against?

I think we are fine but I want to double-check.

Our MVME2101s also use the "dec21x40End.h/c"

PS: Did WRS give you a TSR or SPR that we could look up on our end?

Thanks,
Ernest L. Williams Jr.
SNS Control Systems Group
ORNL

> 
> Kind regards,
> Andreas Isenegger
> 
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> Andreas Isenegger
> SLS Controls
> Paul Scherrer Institute, WSLA/207
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