Subject: fix for DSC timeouts (unofficial)

From: Stupendous Man

Submitted: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:27:33 -0400

Message number: 34 (previous: 33, next: 35 up: Index)

  The DSC has occasionally timed-out while trying to read a frame
in the past few weeks.  I don't claim that this is the official 
means to deal with the problem, but Tim McKay and Jim Annis have
both given me similar instructions.  I post them here for the benefit
of others, and so I can refer to the post in the future.

                        Michael Richmond

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If the DSC camera hangs/times out:

At the fnstar% UNIX prompt type,

	cu -l /dev/ttyd4
	cli
	statusDump daq*

(look at the status of daqBusy also check if daqRowCnt is less than
1124)

type,

	readoutAbort
	quit
	~.


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