<!-- Title: Day shift. Thu Oct 19, 2000 -->
<!-- Leader: Mel Shochet -->
<!-- Ace: Dan Cyr -->
<!-- Co1: Rob Snihur -->
<!-- Co2: Carla Pilcher -->
<!-- Co3: Willis Sakumoto (SOS) -->
<!-- Co4: Slawek Tkaczyk (SOS) -->
<!-- Co5: &nbsp; -->
<!-- Notes: -->



<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 09:07:06 2000 -->
<pre>The code for the e-log has been cleaned-up, and a new version 
installed today.  If you have any problems, please let me know...</pre>
<!-- Author: rvidal -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 09:35:32 2000 -->
Rick T  took CAL (plug+wall+central) to verify the mornings controlled access didnt disturb the cal. He called to returne wall+central. L3 is out to experts, and they took WCAL as well. 
  
<!-- Author: Dan -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 09;58;42 comment by...Dan -->
Rick returned pcal, swapped L2 crates to get wcal back, starting cal+muon calibrations



<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:04:41 2000 -->
<pre>Now that all the comotion in the control room has settled down 
(for the moment!), I will summarize what has been going on. 
 
	- PLAN: 
		- start by checking that everthing is OK after 
		  the access 
		- various detector groups will be taking crates 
		  this morning for studies 
		- when there is coalesced beam, we will do  
		  trigger timing studies</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:05:56 2000 -->
<pre>Done with COT crate testing, during and after the access. All 
COT crates (meaning ALL, i.e. b0cot00-19) readout fine 
(>1000000 triggers). I've updated the bank sets to reflect 
replaced/additional TDC's. There was some interference with 
somebody running a teststand program on b0cot01, leading to DONE 
timeouts. 
 
For the shift, please use the updated list of COT crates on 
the whiteboard. 
</pre>
<!-- Author: Arnd -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:08:48 2000 -->
<pre>COT crates returned. J. Patrick took cmx01 
</pre>
<!-- Author: Dan -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 11;26;59 comment by...patrick -->
Tried a modified tracer to see if it would cure
VRB transfer problems. It did not. The original
tracer was restored (crate b0cmx01).
<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:13:27 2000 -->
<pre>continuing from my last entry, 
 
	0915:	Cryo crew is powering up solenoid to low current 
		in order to test controls. 
	0930:	New TS firmware is being tested 
	0940:	Carla discovers the problem with the plug_4  
		trigger.  That trigger has a 4 GeV plug threshold 
		and a 127 GeV central threshold.  Most of the 
		triggers are phototube spikes in CEM (above 127  
		GeV).  Alexei is making a new trigger table with 
		a 2 GeV threshold (really 1 GeV) in plug for 
		cosmic ray running. 
	0940:	Eric replaced a TDC in COT crate 19.  This fixed 
		the problem (and thus the crate 18 problem as 
		well). 
	1000:	Dan will do calorimeter and muon calibrations, 
		since those are the only crates he has at the  
		moment!</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:26:52 2000 -->
<pre>muon calibration taken</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:37:16 2000 -->
<pre>Dan is taking calorimeter LED calibration</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:40:15 2000 -->
<pre>The new TS firmware for handling level 2 is only in partition 
4 at present so that level-2 testing can be done. </pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 10;54;03 comment by...Michael Schmidt -->
Interested parties will be pleased to know that the
TS (partition 4) and L2 are robustly communicating
with triggers driven by FRED and the FRED L2 interface
board included.  No other L2 interface boards are
plugged in at this time.  All users are to be advised
that the L2 firmware change in the TS is very minor
(only adding test points) and the difficulty with the
previous version is not understood.  It would be prudent
to avoid power cycling the TS crate.


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 10:59:52 2000 -->
<pre>Calibration COT </pre>
<!-- Author: Dan :: (run 101903) -->



<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 11:27:25 2000 -->
<pre>A retake of QIE calib</pre>
<!-- Author: Dan :: (run 101907) -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 11:30:48 2000 -->
<pre>Yesterday, b0cot06 gave corrupted data with the hardware 
event builder. Today I did the standalone test, 
the VRB reported TAXI protocol errors. This is 
most often associated with a bad CDF clock, 
but there could be other reasons. 
In any case, the crate is unusable with the 
hardware event builder.</pre>
<!-- Author: patrick -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 11:58:37 2000 -->
<pre>The problem with the plug triggers last night can be easily 
solved by setting the central energy requirement above the  
maximum that the DIRAC card can produce.  Alexei is remaking 
the following trigger tables: 
 
	COMMISSIONING_JET_PLUG_4 
	COMMISSIONING_PHOTON_PLUG_4 
	COMMISSIONING_JET_PLUG_2 
	COMMISSIONING_PHOTON_PLUG_2</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 12:00:32 2000 -->
<pre>Bob Kephart reports that testing of COT controls is done and that 
the magnet will be left at full field.</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 12:02:22 2000 -->
<pre>Run 101911 (0x18e17)  
HEVB (subfarm 0 only) run with L2 processor. 
COMMISSIONING_TABLE_2[5,40] 
L1 interface board in L2 crate. 
All other L2 interface boards removed. 
Stephen Miller issuing L2 accepts by hand  
from U of M 
---------------------------------------- 
20 events!! 
--------------------------------------</pre>
<!-- Author: Greg  :: (run 101911) -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 16;30;44 comment by...Michael Schmidt -->
Note this was with Partition 4 which is
the TS that should be used with L2 Processors
until further notice.
<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 12:36:02 2000 -->
<pre>At 11:45 there was a low level flammable gas alarm on 730 
platform. The gas tech identified the problem on the CLC East 
flow meter and fastened a loose fitting. The alarm was reset 
and the system is operational again.   
 
The trouble alarm was signaled from the Storage Shed about 
the same time. George was paged and we are waiting for his arrival. 
</pre>
<!-- Author: S. Tkaczyk -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:09:19 2000 -->
<pre>Stephen Miller is testing level 2 in partition 4.</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:12:35 2000 -->
<pre>The Gas Storage "trouble" gas alarms were identified by 
George and attributed to short lasting glitches in two sensors 
located at Center Bottom and Center Top. The alarm status was reset.   </pre>
<!-- Author: S. Tkaczyk -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:27:56 2000 -->
<pre>As suggested by Henry Frisch on last eve shift, 
I created a text file to act as a sort of informal 
CO logbook.  It is located in the cdfdaq account on 
the online cluster, named ~/CO_comments/CO_comments.txt. 
Use this file for questions & answers regarding event display, 
monitors, and other hints/comments not generally appropriate 
for the official E-log. 
</pre>
<!-- Author: Rob Snihur -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:36:15 2000 -->
<pre>Bill Ashmanskas is running SVX and SVT in partition 2.</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:37:00 2000 -->
<pre>Used DBANA to display results of cal calibration run 101907. 
Noticed that crate 6 was missing in the plots. 
Rick Tesarek says the ace did not include it in the run. 
This same crate is missing in the previous calibration 
run (earlier this morn) as well.  Ace says he followed 
instructions to a "T", so someone must have changed the 
calibration run configuration.</pre>
<!-- Author: Rob Snihur :: (run Used DBANA to displ101907) -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 13:52:47 2000 -->
<pre>Steve H. is resetting clock to 1x8 setting... </pre>
<!-- Author: Dan -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 14;09;59 comment by...Dan -->
and we have success!! clock at 1x8


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 14:16:29 2000 -->
<pre>Trying farrukh's error_handler_test_2 
 
ERROR in triggertable.run.L2Global.initExeFileName(): bad data ! 
</pre>
<!-- Author: Dan :: (run 101927) -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 14:43:32 2000 -->
I was using SVX + SVT + L2DE01 in partition 2, for SVT Hit 
Finder tests.  I was learning interesting things, but then 
part of SVX tripped (so I am told) and I lost ability to 
coldstart FIB04.  Reboot didn't help.  Unbooking FIB04 and 
VRB03 didn't help.  I decided to quit and work for a while 
with a test stand.  I'm now done with everything, and I think 
I can now easily set up the configuration that Jane and Greg 
are interested in testing.  Call 773-263-5249 if you don't 
see me around B0, or e-mail 7732635249@messaging.sprintpcs.com 
with up to one line of text, no subject.  
<!-- Author: Ashmanskas -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 14:51:29 2000 -->
<table border=0><td><tr><td bgcolor=#e0e030>Performing QIE Calibration yet again. Apparently, somehow the default ace's run configuration ("VAIA_CALIB_FEW_NEW") got changed (its not supposed to be saved over). One of the changes was dropping of the b0wcal06 crate(which was recovered with a simple reboot). I think it would be a good idea to allow a few read-only configurations that cant be overwitten. With >100 crates, and many settings, it would be nice to have a "complete" configuration from which sick crates can be removed etc. 
</td></tr></td></table>
<!-- Author: Dan :: (run 101944) -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:07:57 2000 -->
<pre>Tested feature of reporting severe event errors in Level-3  
executable to Merlin and putting these bad events into a  
separate bad event stream.   Runs #101945 and #101947.  The  
error reporting is working.</pre>
<!-- Author: Kirsten -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:12:33 2000 -->
I was using SVT + L2DE01 in partition 1 (no SVX), and I  
recabled SVT so that the Track Fitters are in the chain. 
Now if Jane uses the "daqtest/svt/svtwja_nosvx" configuration, 
she should be able to see tracks in the right format for 
her L2 processor test.
<!-- Author: Ashmanskas -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:14:12 2000 -->
<pre>All healthy crates were supposed to be returned to the shift 
crew at 3PM.  However many useful studies are still underway: 
	- Level-1 timing studies 
	- Level-2 processor studies 
	- SVX work 
	- COT studies 
So we will wait another hour before taking all of the crates.</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:40:51 2000 -->
<pre>Offline collider data validation ntuples (and some eps files) 
have moved to fcdfsgi2:/cdf/data04/s3/commission/snihur 
due to a disk controller failure. 
Pasha will rename the directory to something more official. 
</pre>
<!-- Author: Rob Snihur -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:51:40 2000 -->
<pre>CMX west, wedge 21 tripped from standby.  Michael Schmitt was  
here to look at it.</pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:55:30 2000 -->
Greg F. was running l1 tests with CCAL, when b0ccal00 died in the middle of a run. Upon trying to login to the crate he got a "no route to host", some minutes later when i tried to run with ccal00 it worked fine.
<!-- Author: Dan -->
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 16;29;15 comment by...patrick -->
<pre>The crate rebooted for some reason.
You can check the boot time by logging into the crate
and issuing the command:
printBootTime
</pre>
<!-- Comment: Thu Oct 19 17;00;08 comment by...patrick -->
A bit later, on VxMon it was observed that most of the calorimeter crates had large stack overflows in the FER_calib task. There is some problem in this code. It is surprising more boards did not crash.	
<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:56:04 2000 -->
<pre>Ive taken a sevb run with imu only....1.5m events</pre>
<!-- Author: dan :: (run 101949) -->


<!-- Date: Thu Oct 19 15:59:28 2000 -->
<font color=red>Shift Summary: </font><pre>The integration is left to the evening shift.  Experts are  
still working on their systems.</pre> 
<br><b>End of Shift Numbers</b>
<table><tr><td width=60% align=left>
<b>CDF Run II <p></b>                       
<pre>
Runs                   
Delivered Luminosity   0  pb-1
Acquired Luminosity    0  pb-1
Efficiency             
   
</td></tr></table></pre>
<!-- Author: M. Shochet -->