MIDAS software installation

Installation of MIDAS Data Acquisition application package for MVME5500 Linux

Last updated on Aug 12 2004/ Nov 02 2009

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   -   Optional   -   omit if you are not using the gigabit interface
#  this system is 10.0.0.4 and there is a tape server 10.0.0.2   - Change for your configuration
#
    ifconfig eth0 inet 10.0.0.4 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
#
#    load main data acquisition program
#    define netints 
#
#      If writing to tape remove the comment character (#) at the start of the 
#      next command and insert the name or IP address of the tape server system
#
#netstring TS_Server "tape_server_name"
#
#    The buffer size here must match the buffer size declared in the MIDAS Tape Server configuration
#
    netint Output_BufferSize 32
    netint Xfer_Option 3
    netint Format_Option 3
#
    netint Xfer_Overlap 1
    netint Xfer_Priority 1
#
    cd /MIDAS/Data_Acq/bin/linux-mvme5500
    ./ExecV1
    nice ./MIDASExecV2
#
    umask $UM
#

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