Reports until 08:33, Thursday 28 August 2014
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:33, Thursday 28 August 2014 - last comment - 11:09, Thursday 28 August 2014(13633)
some front end IO Chassis have ADC/DAC cards on PCIe adapter cards

First some background; there are two ways of installing an ADC card in the front end IO Chassis: either as a single PCIe card or as a PCIX card sitting on a PCIe adapter card. Recent ADC errors when running RCG2.9 on the IOP model for SUS EY have been resolved by Keith and Rolf as being caused by ADC/adapter cards being used in certain slots. The hope was that the installed H1 system was not using any adapted ADCs, but when I scanned all the front end IOCs I found the following front ends do indeed have cards on adapters:

h1susey (2 ADC)

h1seiex (3 ADC)

h1oaf0 (1 DAC-16bit)

During next Tuesday's maintenance, we will replace these with PCIe cards to ensure all front ends are hardware identical. We will also check the 3rd IFO IO Chassis are hardware identical to H1 and L1.

Comments related to this report
keith.thorne@LIGO.ORG - 11:09, Thursday 28 August 2014 (13644)CDS
Note that the problem only occurred if a PCIX ADC was used in the very first ADC slot (ADC0).  As long as a PCIe ADC was used as ADC0, both kinds of ADCs could be used in other slots.   Also, we have not found any problems with DAC cards at present.