MIDAS software installation

Installation of MIDAS Data Acquisition application package for MVME5500 Linux

Last updated on Aug 12 2004

MIDAS Data Acquisition specific start-up script

Install this script as /MIDAS/linux-mvme5500/startup/[vme system]



#!/bin/bash
#
    UM=`umask`
    umask 0
#
#  configure GigE interface for EbyE data
#  this system is 10.0.0.6
#
    ifconfig eth0 inet 10.0.0.6 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.255.255.255 up
#
    vmeers 0 vme
    source /MIDAS/config/VME/NetVarDefn.linux-mvme5500
    source /MIDAS/config/VME/NetVarRegDefn.linux-mvme5500
#
# start spectrum server:
#
    memsas
    source /MIDAS/config/VXI/GroupDefn.linux-mvme5500
#
#    define netints and access registers
#
    netstring TS_Server "10.0.0.6"
#
    netint X2VB_BufferSize 64
    netint Output_BufferSize 16
    netint Format_Option 1
    netint Xfer_Option 5
    netint DACQ_PushEnable 30
    netint DMAFlags_vdw 64
    netint DMAFlags_vas 32
    netint DMAFlags_vct 2
#
    netint Xfer_Overlap 1
    netint Xfer_Priority 1
#
#    set X2VB control register to 0x3100 
    netint X2VB_EnableFlags 0x3100
#
    cd /MIDAS/Data_Acq/bin/linux-mvme5500
    ./ExecV1
    nice ./VXIExecV14
#
    umask $UM
#

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