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Date |
Author |
Subject |
Text |
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58
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Thu, 12.03.2026 15:35:49 |
D. Rybka | NIM splitter in TOF-R | On 2026.03.11 NIM splitter device for trigger
signal was installed in TOF-R rack and connected
to all TOF-R DRS crates.
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57
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Wed, 25.02.2026 13:36:53 |
B. Maksiak | DRS startup procedure | Sorry, it's in Polish. When I have more time,
I will translate it and add pictures and
schematics.
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56
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Thu, 5.02.2026 13:05:28 |
B. Maksiak | New crates + rearrangement | Four new DRS crates (Kontron-Wiener) have
been delivered. They came with their own
power supplies and fan units. At the same |
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55
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Thu, 28.11.2024 20:41:24 |
D. Rybka, Y. Balkova | DRS board swapped BPD3<->TOF2 | Thu, 28.11.2024 20:42:01 DRS board 0x30C (BPD3)
changed from SN112 to SN197
Fri, 29.11.2024 12:01:00 DRS board 0x416 |
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54
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Mon, 25.11.2024 15:17:25 |
B. Maksiak | Beam counter signals moved from fast to slow board for fragmentation run | Due to introduction of A-detector signals,
the signals from S2, S3, V0 i V1 were moved
from fast board (x00f) to slow board (x00e).
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53
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Mon, 25.11.2024 09:47:49 |
Aleksandr Dmitriev | move two MRPC boards to TOFF | Mon, 25.11.2024 09:48:14 AD, DR: We moved
x438 -> 4a0 and x43b -> 4a1 |
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52
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Wed, 30.10.2024 18:20:28 |
B. Maksiak, D. Rybka, Y. Balkova | Swapped names of BMCs of bpd2-02 and 03 | BMCs (Baseboard Management Controller) of
computers bpd2-02 and bpd-03 had swapped
names.
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51
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Mon, 2.10.2023 09:20:55 |
B. Maksiak | Crash of psd2 and psd4 | Mon, 2.10.2023 09:23:06
Two computers at PSD: psd2 and ps4 crashed
at 2:48 last night. psd4 restarted and lost |
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50
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Mon, 25.09.2023 17:48:16 |
B. Maksiak | Solution for falsely recognized USB ports | Recent batch of 4xUSB 3.0 expansion cards
shown a new problem. The system may see all
USB ports, but only some of them may actually |
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49
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Wed, 20.09.2023 12:12:52 |
B. Maksiak | USB 3.0 card replaced in psd1 | psd1 computer was falsely showing 4 available
USB ports. Only one port was actually communicating
with the DRS board. The USB card was replaced. |
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48
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Tue, 15.08.2023 15:18:40 |
B. Maksiak | psd1 turned off | During data taking the psd1 computer turned
off by itself. This time the computer does
not want to turn back on. PSD was excluded |
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47
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Wed, 9.08.2023 11:49:49 |
B. Maksiak | Casualties during firmware upgrade | [LIST]
[*] I accidentally ripped off capacitor C483
from board SN195. It should be checked what |
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46
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Wed, 2.08.2023 19:17:16 |
B.Maksiak, Y.Balkova | New DRS firmware | New firmware revision v6 was prepared for
DRS boards. Its main new features are:
[LIST]
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45
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Wed, 19.07.2023 14:54:57 |
B.Maksiak | Crash of psd1 | Last night the machine [I]psd1[/I] crashed
and rebooted. After reboot all USB ports
were visible, but DRS boards could not be |
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44
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Tue, 18.07.2023 16:46:18 |
B. Maksiak, P. Podlaski | Long busy problem fixed | Long busy problem has been fixed.
Two DRS registers (33 and 35) had to be zeroed |
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43
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Mon, 17.07.2023 17:16:13 |
B.Maksiak | Wrong voltage calibration VCalib_2023-07-17_1258.bin | The DRS calibration taken about 13:00 had
some issues. [B]Boards x417, x433, x438 in
runs 42292-42297[/B] may be affected by wrong |
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42
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Thu, 13.07.2023 14:18:19 |
B.Maksiak | Major issue in crate TOF4 | Yesterday when testing readout I noticed that
all boards in the crate TOF4 do not get eventID
from the trigger system. The LED next to |
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41
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Sat, 1.07.2023 19:23:53 |
B.Maksiak | Another replacement for USB cards in tof1-01 and tof2-03 | The boards that had been replaced [URL=http://na61-elog.cern.ch/DRS+logbook/39]few
days ago[/URL] were showing a behavior not
seen before.
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40
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Wed, 28.06.2023 09:59:35 |
B.Maksiak, Y.Balkova | DRS boards rearrangements before neutrino run | Wed, 28.06.2023 09:59:54
13 DRS boards from BPD1 were removed. Their
USB cables were taken away as well and put |
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39
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Mon, 26.06.2023 18:12:55 |
B.Maksiak | USB 3.0 cards replaced in tof1-01 and tof2-03 | tof1-01 and tof2-03 could not show more than
two USB ports. The PCI-Express USB 3.0 expansion
cards were replaced there.
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38
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Wed, 31.05.2023 14:18:25 |
B.Maksiak | Problems before 2023 neutrino run | USB expansion cards on following computers
cannot see 4 USB ports:
[LIST]
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37
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Wed, 23.11.2022 19:37:16 |
B. Maksiak | Board x50c (SN142) collected voltage calibration wrongly | Earlier this day I took voltage calibration.
During the calibration one of DRS chips of
board x50c did collected voltage calibration |
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36
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Fri, 18.11.2022 14:40:06 |
B. Maksiak | J110 module in TOF2 replaced | All boards connected to crate TOF2 had channel
9 sine waves missing. The faulty module was
the culprit. It was replaced by new one. |
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35
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Wed, 16.11.2022 11:02:51 |
B. Maksiak | Problems with DRS boards in TOF crates | On the run meeting 15.11. [URL=https://indico.cern.ch/event/1221341/contributions/5138246/attachments/2547504/4387274/Everything.pdf]I
reported[/URL] bad waveforms in many DRS
boards from TOF crates. There were several |
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34
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Sun, 13.11.2022 16:52:15 |
B. Maksiak | DRS boards rearrangement in TOF | On request of mRPC group, some boards were
moved in between TOF racks. TOF4 supposed
to be populated by 12 boards taken from other |
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33
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Sat, 12.11.2022 22:59:53 |
B. Maksiak | psd4 computer lost 4 GB of RAM | After turn off of psd computers yesterday
(11.11.2022 17:30), I had to turn them on
again. psd2 has 18 GB of RAM now. It should |
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32
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Sat, 12.11.2022 16:54:45 |
B. Maksiak | Rearrangement of DRS boards | DRS boards configuration was rearranged for
Pb run.
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31
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Thu, 10.11.2022 21:51:42 |
B. Maksiak | Investigation of boards 156 and 157 | This topic is connected with http://na61-elog.cern.ch/DRS+logbook/29
Boards 156 and 157 do not accept event ID |
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30
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Thu, 10.11.2022 21:27:09 |
B. Maksiak | Boards 142, 143 moved: TOF->PSD | The boards 142 and 143 were moved back (see
http://na61-elog.cern.ch/DRS+logbook/19)
to PSD.
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29
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Thu, 3.11.2022 14:35:04 |
B. Maksiak | Problems with board SN157 | The board SN157 shows similar problems as
board [URL=http://na61-elog.cern.ch/DRS+logbook/15]SN156[/URL].
The board does not recognize event ID, produces |
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28
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Wed, 2.11.2022 22:48:25 |
B. Maksiak | Problems with board SN188 | The board SN188 (problem observed when it
had address x412) has following issues:
[LIST]
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27
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Tue, 1.11.2022 16:12:29 |
B. Maksiak | DRS computer bpd2-03 needs replacement | bpd2-03 machine has one RAM slot malfunctioning.
That was already discovered and labeled last
year, but somehow that machine still got |
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26
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Mon, 19.09.2022 14:03:56 |
B. Maksiak | Problems with board SN151 | The board SN151 had problems with voltage
calibration. First channel of first DRS chip
seems to not react to changing DAC values |
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25
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Sat, 9.07.2022 11:29:21 |
B. Maksiak | munmap_chunk, double free or corruption (fixed) | During tests related to the previous entry,
six machines (bpd1-0[1-4], bpd2-0[12]) were
giving following errors at the first event |
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24
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Sat, 9.07.2022 11:25:41 |
B. Maksiak | The readout problems (ctd.) | The problem with readout problems reported
in previous entry evolved.
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23
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Mon, 4.07.2022 15:58:30 |
B. Maksiak, K. Wójcik | Readout problems with board x20c | There is a not understandable problem happening
to readout of the board x20c (#C). The board
gets very noisy readout.
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22
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Mon, 4.07.2022 15:40:03 |
B. Maksiak, K. Wójcik | Problems with boards x207, x209 | The boards [B]x207[/B] (#06) and [B]x209[/B]
(#09) started to have problems with proper
triggering on events. The board x209 started |
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21
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Sat, 25.06.2022 13:27:59 |
B. Maksiak, P. Podlaski | Board 178 moved. BPD3 -> BPD3 | The board 178 was moved from serving as readout
of BPD3 to the slow-counter readout board.
It did not change the crate of residence.
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20
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Fri, 24.06.2022 19:19:35 |
B. Maksiak, S. Pulawski | Board 136 moved. TOF -> BPD2 | The board 136 was moved from mRPC (TOF1 crate)
to BPD2
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19
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Thu, 23.06.2022 11:57:37 |
B. Maksiak, B. Rumberger | Boards 142, 143 moved. PSD -> FTOF | The boards 142 and 143 were moved from PSD
to FTOF.
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18
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Sat, 21.05.2022 20:54:59 |
B. Maksiak | Controller SN5 has issues with programming via JTAG | It cannot program even one board due to many
strange errors. |
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17
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Sat, 21.05.2022 17:47:18 |
B. Maksiak | Programming boards via JTAG on the controller | Programming boards using USB-Blaster connected
to the controller in the crate is painful.
One cannot program more than two boards at |
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16
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Sat, 21.05.2022 17:44:27 |
B. Maksiak | Issue with controller SN6 | The controller SN6 does not provide properly
the sample clock. When inserted, the PLL-not-locked
diodes in the same crate blink in a random |
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15
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Sat, 21.05.2022 17:41:36 |
B. Maksiak | Strange behavior of SN156 | The board SN156 behaves in a strange way.
When it is put to the crate with other boards
then the board overrides the readout of all |
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14
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Fri, 29.04.2022 10:55:12 |
B. Maksiak | Problems with board x106 (SN154) | The board SN154 shows strange readouts on
the first chip. It needs to be exchanged
with other board.
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13
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Fri, 25.02.2022 12:30:27 |
B. Maksiak, Y. Balkova | Plans for March and April periods | [B]To do before shifts in March[/B]
[LIST]
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12
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Mon, 6.09.2021 17:28:18 |
B. Maksiak | Preparation of DRS readout machines | All DRS readout machines were installed and
prepared. All of them are Dell blades with
24 GB of RAM and USB PCI Express expansion |
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11
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Sun, 5.09.2021 10:16:01 |
B. Maksiak | Status of PCI Express USB 3.0 cards | [TABLE border="1"]
No. | Status | Location | Info
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10
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Mon, 30.08.2021 14:24:56 |
B. Maksiak | BPD1A machine connected to TDAQ network | Two days ago the first BPD1 readout machine
was connected to TDAQ network. The network
cable labeled "[B]DRSBPD1 01[/B]" was connected |
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9
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Fri, 27.08.2021 21:00:20 |
B. Maksiak | Network cables to BPDs | Yesterday and today the network cables from
DAQ room to BPDs were pulled.
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8
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Fri, 23.07.2021 11:00:18 |
B. Maksiak | First readout from BPD1 | Yesterday we connected one DRS board to BPD1
and checked the basic connectivity and readout.
Due to delay in delivery of 750 meters of |
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7
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Tue, 20.07.2021 23:08:29 |
B. Maksiak | TODO | [B]Problems[/B]
[LIST]
[*] Wiener crates have currents and voltages |
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6
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Mon, 19.07.2021 09:42:09 |
Y. Balkova, B. Maksiak | Instruction for test data taking | [LINE]
[B]ssh to supervisor machine and all machines,
which are used for the data taking[/B]
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5
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Sat, 17.07.2021 10:46:17 |
B. Maksiak | DRS config registers | Register 13, trigger register
0b
IGNORE DISCARD - to work without backplane |
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4
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Tue, 13.07.2021 16:10:00 |
Y. Balkova, B. Maksiak | Rotary switches map | [LINE]
Rotary switches of each DRS board have XXX
format, where X can be a letter from A to |
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3
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Mon, 12.07.2021 09:39:14 |
Y. Balkova, B. Maksiak | Instruction for DRS boards | [LINE]
[B]Program FPGA[/B]
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2
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Mon, 12.07.2021 09:22:41 |
Y. Balkova, B. Maksiak | Instruction for DRS machines | [B]Register the machine in CERN network[/B]
MAC address --> add the machine to CERN network:
network.cern.ch
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1
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Sat, 10.07.2021 12:17:37 |
B. Maksiak, Y. Balkova | Adventures with DRS machines | The first machine that we tried to set up
was an ex-ALICE HP ProLiant DL160 G6. After
the installation of PCI-E USB 3.0 card, it |
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