Thank you for this information. I just found out I cannot even set the station alias, even from twincat. I hacked ethercat to use a binary eeprom file instead of reading it from the slave and that seems to work, aka I can talk to the slave.
Regards, Jesper Op donderdag 25 augustus 2011 15:36:56 schreef Andreas Stewering-Bone: > Hello Jesper, > > sorry, but that is question for florian. > > Best regards > > Andreas > > Am 25.08.2011 15:14, schrieb Jesper Smith: > > Hello Andreas, > > > > Unfortunatly the slave doesn't accept a new Eeprom (it accepts the data > > fine, but doesn't update anything). I'm trying to contact the > > manufacturer but they are hard to reach. Also, I suspect the Eeprom is > > 2048kb, but the data from the XML file takes 3072kb. > > > > How hard would it be to have Etherlab use XML files instead of reading > > the SII information? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Jesper > > > > Op donderdag 25 augustus 2011 09:02:14 schreef Andreas Stewering-Bone: > >> Hello Jesper, > >> > >> It is always the same I think. > >> > >> TwinCAT works without reading the Slave Eeprom. > >> > >> Our master tries to read out some information form the Eeprom. > >> Only a small amount of slave producer build up their Eeprom content > >> properly. > >> Here the final end tag is missing. > >> > >> You can do > >> > >> - Backup the Eeprom via ethercat sii_read -p slaveid> file > >> - Build up a new Eeprom content in TwinCAT based on the XML > >> Description. > >> - Save this file to the Slave via ethercat sii_write -p slaveid > >> filename > >> > >> Power down the bus, restart everything. > >> > >> See if the message is gone. > >> > >> Best regards > >> > >> Andreas > >> > >> Am 24.08.2011 21:02, schrieb Jesper Smith: > >>> I'm testing an Elmo Gold Guitar Solo in combination with Ethercat. > >>> Using TwinCAT I can get it to work. Using SOEM (simple open > >>> ethercat master) I'm able to read the configuration (SDO), however > >>> when I connect it to the Ethercat master I get the following error > >>> > >>> EtherCAT WARNING 0-0: SII size exceeds 4096 words (0xffff > >>> limiter > >>> missing?).> > >>> > >>> What is wrong with the slave or is it an error in etherlab? > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Jesper > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> etherlab-users mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users > >> > >> Mit freundlichem Gruß > >> > >> Andreas Stewering-Bone > > > > _______________________________________________ > > etherlab-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users > > Mit freundlichem Gruß > > Andreas Stewering-Bone _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
