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Entry  02 Jul 2009, Dawei Liu, Forum, Data taking hangs in the middle of run 
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Message ID: 605     Entry time: 03 Jul 2009     In reply to: 604     Reply to this: 606
Author: Pierre-Andre Amaudruz 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: Data taking hangs in the middle of run 
Hi Dawei,

Could you give more info on your setup:
- CAMAC controller model
- ADC model
- LAM setting
- Mode of polling (on module or on CC)
- Are you still going through the poll_event() after hang up?
- Do you have the same problem at low rate (100Hz)?

Pierre-André
> Hi,
> 
> We are using midas to read ADC. It sometimes hung in the middle of data taking.
> We tried to disable analyzer and only run with frontend. The problem still
> exists. We tried to use different crate, different CAMAC controller and
> different ADC module. All these did not solve the problem. We use polled method
> to read data. We have dataway display unit so we know that it hung always after
> it executed CAMAC command F9, which is after finishing one data taking and clear
> the ADC for the next data taking. The data rate is about 1 KHz. It is random for
> how long it takes for the system to hang.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dawei Liu
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