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    User name miham

    Log entry time 08:05:26 on April28,2009

    Entry number 269393

    keyword=Owl shift summary (04/28/09)


    Owl shift summary: Miha Mihovilovic (SL), Peter Bradshaw (TO)
    Eli Piasetzky (3rd)
    ===================================================================

    EVENTS
    ------
    00:00 Start of the OWL shift. We are in "production" mode
    and are taking 3He data (Vertical polarization. The target
    polarization is 85.4%) The shift starterd during runs #1601
    and #20472.

    00:30 The instructions on the whiteboard say that we should stop
    LEFT-DAQ first and then RIGHT-DAQ. However, in the case of
    runs (#1601 and #20472) the RIGHT-DAQ reached the limit of
    5M events before the LEFT-DAQ and consequently stopped
    automatically before LEFT-DAQ.

    00:35 When we started the next two runs (#1602 and #20473), we
    first started the RIGHT-DAQ, which started normally and then
    started the LEFT-DAQ, which didn't want to start. There was
    an error: "Prestart failed". So we tried again and the
    LEFT-DAQ started normally but with the next run number
    #1603.

    00:41 We noticed that the dead time for the RIGHT-DAQ went from 0%
    to 22% and then up to 100%. Then the "ROC-8 no responding"
    error appeared. We have decided to stop LEFT coda, kill Right
    coda and restart it. When we tried to do that, the error
    appeared that there is no more disk space left on the device.
    The problem with disk space also appeared in the end-of-run
    file of the left-coda.

    I have contacted Brad and told him about this problem. He
    explained to me that the "home" directory is full and he is
    going to clean it. After that we restarted the RIGHT-DAQ and
    started the both runs. However, the both DAQs reported the
    "AUTOMATIC START OF CODA FAIL". Therefore we have decided to
    kill both codas again, restarted them and started new runs
    again. This time we did it more slowly. We didn't pressed both
    start-run buttons quickly one after another but first started
    the RIGHT-DAQ, than waited a while so that the start-of-run
    window appeared for the left arm and than started the
    LEFT DAQ. This time it worked.

    I believe that the last crash happened because we started the
    both codas to quickly. We should probably always start the
    right-daq first, wait a while and then start the left daq.

    01:00 Now we are again running normally. Dead time is 2% for
    LEFT-DAQ and 0% for the RIGHT-DAQ. Current run numbers (after
    the crash) are: #1605 and $20475.

    We have changed the Event limit for the Right DAQ from the 5M
    to 7M, so that HRS-R DAQ will not stop automatically before
    HRS-L DAQ. The HRS-L event limit was left at 5M events.


    01:33 After ending runs #1605 and #20475 we have started new HAPPEX
    run #31282

    03:50 Beam was gone for 7min

    05:24 After ending runs #1612 and #20482 we have started new HAPPEX
    run #31283

    06:12 There was no beam for 11min

    07:40 The Neutron detector has been turned ON



    RUNS
    ----

    LEFT HRS

    ------------------------- Runs from previous shift-------------------
    22:11-22:33 #1598 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 4M, I = 6uA
    22:34-23:04 #1599 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    23:04-23:36 #1600 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    23:36-00:13 #1601 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 4M, I = 6uA

    ------------------------- OUR RUNS ----------------------------------
    00:15-00:15 #1602 JUNK!!!
    00:16-00:40 #1603 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    (We ended the run because of the disk space problem )
    00:55-00:55 #1604 JUNK!!!
    00:59-01:33 #1605 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    01:36-02:09 #1606 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    02:09-02:39 #1607 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    02:29-03:11 #1608 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    03:11-03:40 #1609 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    03:40-04:20 #1610 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    04:20-04:53 #1611 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    04:53-05:24 #1612 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    05:26-05:57 #1613 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    05:57-06:39 #1614 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    06:39-07:11 #1615 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev = 5M, I = 6uA
    07:11-07:43 #1616 3He possible produnction run, Num.ev =4.5M, I = 6uA


    RIGHT HRS

    ------------------------- Runs from previous shift-------------------
    22:11-22:33 #20469 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 3.8M, I = 6uA
    22:34-23:04 #20470 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 3.9M, I = 6uA
    23:04-23:36 #20471 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev =4.3M, I = 6uA
    23:36-00:13 #20472 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev =5.0M, I = 6uA

    ------------------------- OUR RUNS ----------------------------------

    00:15-00:40 #20473 3He possible produnction run, Num. ev =? , I = 6uA
    (Coda crashed because of the disk space problem )
    00:55-00:55 #20474 JUNK!!!
    00:58-01:33 #20475 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    01:36-02:09 #20476 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    02:09-02:38 #20477 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    02:39-03:11 #20478 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    03:11-03:40 #20479 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    03:40-04:20 #20480 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    04:20-04:53 #20481 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    04:53-05:24 #20482 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    05:26-05:57 #20483 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    05:57-06:39 #20484 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    06:39-07:10 #20485 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 4.3M, I = 6uA
    07:10-07:42 #20486 3He possible produnction run,Num. ev= 3.9M, I = 6uA