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 USAGE OF A TIM BOARD 29 5.1 Connecting a TIM board to the FIERA SPARC 29 5.2 Testing the connections with the TIM board 29 6 TROUBLESHOOTING 31 6.1 Problems during installation 31 6.1.1 How to change a Hard Disk with SCSI-3 into SCSI-0 31 6.2 Problems with start-up 31 6.2.1 FIERA S/W stays in OFF state 31 6.2.2 FIERA S/W Goes to LOADED but refuses to go to STANDBY or ONLINE 34 6.3 Software starts but exposure status goes to FAIL 35 6.3.1 Failure with the Data Capture Board 35 6.3.2 Failure to lock down the exposure memory 36 6.4 Rebooting/restarting the SLCU 36 6.4.1 Remote reboot using OLDB environment 36 6.4.2 Remote reboot using only operating system 36 6.4.3 Remote halt followed by reset or power cycle 36 6.4.4 Local halt followed by reset or power cycle 37 6.4.5 Hard reset or power cycle 37 6.4.6 When the SLCU refuses to communicate over the network even after reboot 37 6.5 Running FIERA sequence checker 38 6.6 Running detector head electronics diagnostics 38 6.6.1 Cabling between DSP and VME interface board is incorrect (or broken) 39 6.6.2 Non existent board (or board dead) 39 6.6.3 Analogue bias board not reaching desired voltage 39 6.6.4 SIMM on clock driver board missing or dead 39 6.6.5 Preamp disconnected or failed 40 6.7 PULPO trouble shooting 40 6.7.1 Check the PULPO configuration 40 6.7.2 Check basic communication with the PULPO unit 41 6.7.3 PULPO control 41 6.8 Problems with Real-Time Image Display 43 7 REFERENCE 45 7.1 Maintenance utilities 45 7.1.1 fcdDump 46 7.1.2 fcdlWhat 48 7.1.3 fcdTimTest.sh 49
