Log entry time 22:09:37 on November 04, 2011

Entry number 359322

This entry is a followup to: 359319

Followups:

• 359323 11/05/11 16:08 V. Sulkosky Left Arm DAQ Update

After Jack completed the installation of the third Fastbus crate in the 
left HRS rack, Melissa, Ryan and I spent today rearranging the Fastbus
configuration to add the new crate to the DAQ.

First we made sure we could run the DAQ with ROC 3 and 4 as they were.  
This configuration ran well after we fixed a missing ethernet cable for 
ROC 4 and missing gates for ROC 3.  We then proceeded to rearrange the 
Fastbus modules between the crates.  Here is the new configuration:

ROC 3: (hallasfi3)
slots 3-10 1877's for the VDC

ROC 4: (hallasfi4)
slots 3-10 1877's for the VDC
slots 13-19 1877's for the FPP (will be removed for g2p)

ROC 5: (hallasfi5)
slot  15    unused 1875 high resolution TDC
slot  16    spare 1877
slot  18    spare 1881
slots 19-21 1881's for the S1, S2m, GC and PR ADCs
slot  23 1877 for the S1, S2m and GC TDCs
slot  24 1881 for the bpm and raster ADC with 50 ns gate width

After completing these changes, I updated the crl codes for both ROC 3 
and ROC 4 and was able to successfully take data with the DAQ.  We then
proceeded to fit the new FB crate ROC 5 with the required hardware to 
include this crate in the DAQ.

We borrowed the following modules mostly from BB:
1) AUX card originally from ROC 3.  The hardware address for ROC 5 is 
ROC 6 on branch 1 of the trigger supervisior.
2) SFI unit from BigBite ROC 8 including a LeCroy 1151 scaler and a 
5100 CPU.
3) Back-plane distribution card (TDC stop, ADC gate, busy) from BigBite
ROC 8.

Ryan recabled the ADC modules, added a cable for the TDC back-plane 
stops and a cable for the ADC back-plane gates and an ethernet cable for
the CPU.  We are still missing a long enough cable for the serial 
interface for the portserver and a cable to bring the busy signal from 
ROC 5 to up to the Trigger supervisor for running buffered mode.

To program the boot parameters for the ROC 5 CPU, we temporarily 
borrowed the serial cable from ROC 4.  Before we left for the day, we 
were able to successfully boot ROC 5 as hallasfi5.  The boot script is
sfi5.boot under the vxworks directory on the a-onl account.

Finally the last step is to create the crl code and a CODA configuration 
that includes ROC 5.  I started working on the crl code today and I will
 try to finish it sometime tomorrow to test the DAQ with the new FB crate.