[casper] Slow HD write speed

2009-10-14 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Hello all, We have a ROACH system and have butted against an ever so small problem that I was hoping one of you may be able to give some input on. You may notice that I am new to the mailing list, so hello :-). Please don't hesitate to let me know if I am not conforming to the posting polici

Re: [casper] Slow HD write speed

2009-10-18 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Hi David, Thank you so much for that. It was extremely helpful. We were indeed mounting the drive syncronously, *and* the USB is falling back to OHCI. Following your suggestions and removing the sync flag seems to have helped a bit, so to recompile the kernel next ... cheers Kjetil David G

Re: [casper] SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-10-29 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Hi Dan and Wan I can confirm that we are seeing at least some of the problems with another ROACH board as well. This time it is connected directly to a computer with a short CATY5 cable. So maybe this indicates that it is less likely to be a hardware problem? Incidentally, the error message

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-01 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
n. Hopefully someone knows for sure! John thanks, dan Original Message Subject: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:19:01 +1100 From: Kjetil Wormnes To: Dan Werthimer Hi Dan and Wan I can confirm that we are seeing at least some of the problems with

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-02 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
priority for us as we concentrate on other things. If you do not want to try'n debug it yourself, I recommend you try an FTP server. Kjetil, you are correct; at present, KATCP does not support transfer of arbitrary files from filesystem. Jason On 02 Nov 2009, at 00:51, Kjetil Wormnes wrot

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-03 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
other computer? If you don't want to use KATCP for dumping the data directly from your FPGA, you can always mount an NFS network share on your ROACH and record the data there. The USB on the PPC platforms are notoriously unreliable. Jason On 03 Nov 2009, at 03:05, Kjetil Wormnes wrote:

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-04 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
DRAM on startup. The system then hangs. Replacing the DIMM with registered memory (same as FPGA DIMM) apparently fixes this. Jason On 04 Nov 2009, at 07:56, Kjetil Wormnes wrote: Hi all, For reference I've attached a summary of our problems below, and a few things I have attempted to do to

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-05 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
ting "setenv ethaddr 02:00:00:aa:bb:cc" (where aabbcc is your board's serial number). *) save the environment by executing "saveenv". *) Reboot. FWIW, Dave's managed to transfer large files (2GB) without problem, even using SCP, both sending and receiving.

Re: [casper] Fwd: Re: SPDO ROACH spectrometer

2009-11-05 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Sorry, I meant that I will be back on the 16th. Kjetil Wormnes wrote: Hi Jason, Just out of curiosity, did you get my last email? I noticed that your reply was not to the last one I sent. In the last one I detailed some tests and the results. It also showed the uboot and bootstrap config

[casper] ROACH hangs before Uboot prompt

2009-11-10 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
Hi all, new week, new problem. I tried to boot my Roach board this morning after not touching it for about 1.5 weeks. This time however it didn't get to the uBoot prompt. It hangs at the memory test. Interestingly there has been no change from before when it did boot. Anyway; this is what is

Re: [casper] ROACH hangs before Uboot prompt

2009-11-12 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
liable support for registered DIMMs. Jason On 11 Nov 2009, at 03:43, Kjetil Wormnes wrote: Hi all, new week, new problem. I tried to boot my Roach board this morning after not touching it for about 1.5 weeks. This time however it didn't get to the uBoot prompt. It hangs at the memo

Re: [casper] ROACH hangs before Uboot prompt

2009-11-17 Thread Kjetil Wormnes
#x27;ll get 'em all up and running with the latest firmware versions for you. Jason On 13 Nov 2009, at 02:58, Kjetil Wormnes wrote: Hi again Jason, thanks again. Swapping to the FPGA dimm did indeed get me to the uboot prompt (although with the same memory errormessages along the