• See also:
• pdev hardware history
• pnetctl history
• ao fit files for pdev spectrometer history

History:

• 131024: dUpdated software on pdevs0 to most recent code. Switched the working directory on pdevs0 to use the http server ( it was still using the megs2 repository). Decided to keep the box names b0spN  rather than b0sMgN .. Will cause a little hassle moving config files between pdevsN and pdevs0.
  
• 131007: mock synth's have unlocked error. Dana measured jumps in 10 mhz reference (at output of 3 synths 10 mhz daisy chain more info) . Jumps of up to a few cycle. About 6 in a few days. We saw this a few years ago. The synth with the 10 mhz from buffers never has jump (just the daisy chained ones). The synth's re regenerating the 10 Mhz.
  
• 121105
• replaced pdev-108 (b1sXg1) with pdev-101.
  
• We were having lots of bit flips in the data b1s1g1 polA. polB looked ok.
• redid cal.conf for new pdev-101 a/d
  
• 120221
• replaced  pdevs7 spectrometer (pdev-109) with pdev-127. We were having lots of dump timeouts. Dmesg on pdev-109 showed some ethernet 0 timeouts.
  
• 110919
• replaced b5sxg0 box 104 with box 112. Chris had problems with jumps in b5s1g0
• The jumps in the spectra looked like bit flips in the data.
• when running adjpower, there were many a/d overflows (looking at /tmp/pdevsig.log on pdevs1). If the bit flips were occurring, they must have been occuring vary early in the pipeline since the a/d overflow bit check is right after the a/d and mux switch. This bit then gets carried along with the data sample. Since the  bit and the data sample were probably bad, it really must have been a problem at the early stages.
• Ran diagnostics before box 104 replaced.
• ltest,rtest ok
• rdcomp failed. mainly with b5s1g0. (b1s1g1 also failed a lot).
  
• 1106xx:
• 11jun11: pdevs6 disc? in raid fails. replaced
• 17jun11: pdevs2 disc2 in raid fails. replaced
  
• 100908
• pdev-113, pdevs7, b6sxg0 fan2 (gxb) dropouts). looks like power supply trouble
• pdev-113 replaced with pdev-109
  
• 100902:
• pdev-107, pdevs3,b2sxg0 fan 2 replaced.
  
• 090906:
  
• b1sxg0 boxes fan failed, fpga died. This was pdev-109. Replaced with pdev-103.
  
• 090214:
• Swapped I,Q cable in spectrometer box: b6s1g1 (bm 6, high band, polA): dig i0,q0 signal cables swapped inside spectrometer box. Probably occurred when the  dig levels were changed from 1.5 to .78 volts. Group1 has not yet been used for datataking. 090216 check all the other boxes for i/q switches.. None other found.
  
• 081205: replaced disc 5 on pdevs1 raid.
  
• The disc i/o had not been keeping up with galfacts datataking (occasionally).
• The raid stats showed that disc 5 had more seek errors, timeout cnts..
  
• 081010
• Accidentally overwrote pnetctl.html.. Grabbed backup from 12sep08.. and then fill in some of the lost stuff.
  
• B2SxG1 switched out spectrometer box pdev-105 . replaced with pdev-122. connects to pdevS10 server. digitizer S0 IA was giving problems.
• 081001:
• Used a test program to write as fast as possible to a psrfits file (input came from memory) (.ps) (.pdf).
  
• 080821: svn checkout https://mock.com/svn/pdev/web web on pdevs1:/home.local/pdev/pdev   to get the web files for the website.
  
• 080615: timedomain sampling. 
• Does not have an 8 bytes hdr rec. psrv.c was treating those bytes as a rec header and byteswapping them.
•  psrv.c was also using the fftlen to compute how many blks fit in 1 second. Updated so it used the sample rate.
  
• pnetbld now correctly computes how long each block takes in time domain mode.
  
• 080614: polA,polB or  stokesI is stored as unsigned int while fits uses signed. Changed bpOut.c to clip to maximum signed value for these pols.
  
• 080613: ashift computation in pnetbld. Shift up by 1 more  for stokesU,V  relative to pola,polB. This makes the rms of U,V the same as polA,B since jeff outputs 2*polA,2*polb, but only 1*U, 1*V. (Note: 13jun08 i shifted 1 less for u,v..17jun08 i corrected it to shift 1 more). check data
  
• 080608: pnetbld changed default hr_shift to be 12-alog2(sqrt(dec)). see fpga dlpf and parameters hr_shift. check
• 080415:attenuation before a/d changed by 6db.. went from 1.5 to .78 v to get 2048 counts.

NOTES:

• 0910220: pnet 1 second messages output to the user
  
• 36.49 MB/s 20.68 MB [1:1]/1000 blocks  (0.1%)
• Iorate:
  
• This is a cumulative (in time) i/o rate from the start of the observation. 
  
• Computed in the prun spectrometer (prun_rmtdma()). Output by pnet.
  
• The  i/o rates from all of the spectrometers are summed. debug mode probably lets you see individual rates.
  

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