1 INTRODUCTION 7 1.1 Purpose 7 1.2 Scope 8 1.3 Applicable Documents 8 1.4 Reference Documents 8 1.5 Abbreviations and Acronyms 9 1.6 Glossary 10 1.7 Stylistic Conventions 10 1.8 Naming conventions 10 1.9 Problem Reporting/Change Request 10 2 - FIERA SLCU VLTSW UPGRADES 11 2.1 Complete upgrade of the SPARC (including OS) 11 2.1.1 Upgrade of the "Master" SLCU 12 2.1.2 Upgrade of the Instrument SLCUs 15 2.1.3 Last configuration steps for the Instrument SLCUs 18 2.2 OS patches 20 2.2.1 Upgrade of the "Master" SLCU 21 2.2.2 Upgrade of the Instrument SLCUs 21 2.3 Upgrade of the VLTROOT only 21 2.3.1 Upgrade of the "Master" SLCU 21 2.3.2 Upgrade of the Instrument SLCUs 21 2.4 CCD Camera Installation Verification 22 3 SPARC HARD DISK BACKUP 23 3.1 Hardware requirements 23 3.2 System requirements 24 3.3 Backup Operations 24 3.3.1 Prepare the backup Hard Disk 24 3.3.2 Dump the Instrument FIERA Hard Disk on a DAT tape 25 3.3.3 Dump the DAT tape contents on the spare Hard Disk 25 4 PREPARING THE SPARE CPU SPARC TO REPLACEMENT 27 5 TROUBLESHOOTING 29 5.1 Problems during installation 29 5.1.1 How to change a Hard Disk with SCSI-3 into SCSI-0 29 5.2 Problems with start-up 29 5.2.1 FIERA S/W stays in OFF state 29 5.2.2 FIERA S/W Goes to LOADED but refuses to go to STANDBY or ONLINE 32 5.3 Software starts but exposure status goes to FAIL 33 5.3.1 Failure to lock down the exposure memory 33 5.3.2 Failure to allocate the exposure memory 34 5.3.3 Failure to allocate shared memory segment 34 5.4 Rebooting/restarting the SLCU 34 5.4.1 Remote reboot using OLDB environment 34 5.4.2 Remote reboot using only operating system 35 5.4.3 Remote halt followed by reset or power cycle 35 5.4.4 Local halt followed by reset or power cycle 35 5.4.5 SLCU power off 35 5.4.6 Hard reset or power cycle 35 5.4.7 When the SLCU refuses to communicate over the network even after reboot 35 5.5 Running FIERA sequence checker 36 5.6 Running detector head electronics diagnostics 37 5.6.1 Cabling between DSP and VME interface board is incorrect (or broken) 37 5.6.2 Non existent board (or board dead) 37 5.6.3 Analogue bias board not reaching desired voltage 38 5.6.4 SIMM on clock driver board missing or dead 38 5.6.5 Preamp disconnected or failed 38 5.7 PULPO trouble shooting 38 5.7.1 Check the PULPO configuration 39 5.7.2 Check basic communication with the PULPO unit 39 5.7.3 PULPO control 40 5.8 Problems with Real-Time Image Display 41 6 REFERENCE 43 6.1 Maintenance utilities 43 6.1.1 fcdDump 44 6.1.2 fcdlWhat 47
