Recent Changes

Date

Change

Operational Consequence

February 23, 2009 Replaced 50 mm conical slit with two-piece 150 mm dia slit Higher resolution, greater flexibility in alignment
October 1, 2008 Changed camera on main beam from Princeton to Prosilica Different software, ability to make higher speed movies
September 18, 2008 Replaced data disk on data server Old disk was full, it is now mapped as "S:" New disk is mapped as "SAMDATA2:T:" The T: disk contains the full directory structure, but the old directories are empty.
September 1, 2008 Changed detector to 10-element version. Better placement of detector elements.
summer, 2008 Set up new computer for dxp electronics and moved all software which was installed on SideStation computer on February 14 to the new computer. no change
June 1, 2008 Installed 12-element electronics, used with old 13 element detector New hardware; MED file format changed - requires PLOT85 version 7.4 or later. Also, new hardware requires changes in any IDL programs which access the detector
February 14, 2008 Borrowed one 4-channel dxp module and plugged it into the National Instruments PXI crate. Installed the National Instruments controller on the main SideStation Windows computer. Installed xManager software, and a soft IOC on the same computer. Soft IOC module is called dxp R2-8. no change until more elements activated - June 1
February 13, 2008 Installed new version of vxWorks (5.4.2-asd9) from APS onto the MAC. Made a softlink called vxWorks.st that points to this new version of vxWorks. changes should be transparent to user
February 13, 2008 Installed latest version of synApps, and put it into a new directory on the MAC called synApps5-3beta1. Created a soft link, called synApps, to that directory; changed the VME crate to boot from synApps. In the future, that softlink should be changed to point to a new directory (i.e. synApps5-4, etc). changes should be transparent to user