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Meeting 23rd November

Chair: Arwin

Present:

Apologies: Jesse

Absent:

General Issues:

• Cont17
• Please check your emails prior to every shift start, even if the experiment is a vanilla r1 or r4.
• SAR tracks included in regular experiments.

Issues in Handover Notes:

• r4817: If the delay difference is massive and a reconfigure/power cycle to DBBC + fmset sync hasn't fixed it, try running counter in the eremote control to reset 'maserdelay' and 'clkoff'.
• Yg drives getting stuck periodically. Happened for r1818 and r4819
• aov018: Eremote control not connected, in such cases start the experiment using the VNC to relevant pcfs computer. To get alarms you'll need to open a terminal on ops8 and type example ./stream_log hb, repeat for any other stations needed (dont close the terminal). In the log monitor select file '/tmp/hb.log' or equivalent station, as usual run 'cloff' before reading the file in the log monitor.
• r1819: YG error m5 -104 mk5cn: time-out, connection closed. antenna=operate and antenna=open fixed it.
• r1819: Ke drives issues, needed a power reset on site : “Turned the main switch off for 20 secs then back on. The emergency reset light was blinking and after the turn off/on the light stopped blinking.” He mentioned there were some power surges earlier on in the night, and suggested that the power may have gone off and on multiple times during the evening.
• r4819: Ke had issues with drives and erc having the wrong time : Needed to run 'hwclock -w' again to change hardware clock, then disable fscking on reboot by editing '/etc/fstab' as root and changing the last number on the line /dev/md0 to 0 (instead of 1), then rebooting the pcfske. Now ERC and fs have the correct time.

New Scripts

• Have a new script that setups up the mk5's of all the stations in one go.