Reports until 16:09, Monday 08 April 2013
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:09, Monday 08 April 2013 - last comment - 09:33, Wednesday 10 April 2013(5990)
problems with h1ecatc1
While investigating lost frames, Tx/Rx errors and a non zero CRC for the Corner MSR L8_9 Vertex (EK1521) (the terminal for the fiber connection to the H1 electronics room), the h1ecatc1 computer froze and restarted. I had looked into the chassis housing this terminal in the MSR and had not seen anything obviously wrong with it. However, the error LEDs on the Corner MSR L2 (EL3202-0010) (the temperature probe readout) terminal were both lit. After the computer restarted I restarted the system manager and deleted the configured terminal for the connection to end X (it was disabled because it is not connected), and checked that scanning the modules gave an identical configuration. It did, and I put it in run mode and started PLC1 and PLC2. The previous errors with the EK1521 are gone, but the error LEDs are still red on the EL3202. I have not restarted the EPICS IOCs.
Comments related to this report
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 09:10, Tuesday 09 April 2013 (5996)
The lost frames, Tx/Rx errors and nonzero CRC for the Corner MSR L8_9 Vertex (EK1521) fiber coupler terminal are back this morning.
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 12:05, Tuesday 09 April 2013 (5999)
The error LEDs on the EL3202 appear to just be an indication that a temperature probe is not connected.
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 09:33, Wednesday 10 April 2013 (6009)
The chassis in the MSR that this is referring to is S1103490. Yesterday I swapped both the EK1521 terminal and the internal connecting multimode fiber. This and the other fibers are bent over fairly sharply by the chassis cover. So far this seems to have fixed the lost frames, Tx/Rx errors and non zero CRC. It is unclear at this point if the problem was with the fiber or the terminal.