Instructions for Booting the L1 Trigger Control Computer D0HTCC ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev. 11-JAN-1994 0. These are instructions for booting the L1 Trigger Control Computer (the L1 ELN node D0HTCC). These are NOT instructions for the L1 VME Transfer Computer (the L1 68k). 1. You should suspect that the TCC has crashed if neither COOR or TrgMon can connect to it. 2. If possible (e.g. if a store is not in progress) please try to contact Philippe Laurens before booting the TCC. If it has crashed we would like to understand why it crashed before booting it. 3. Except for very unusual circumstances you should be able to boot TCC by triggering it over the network. You can do this with the following command: $ MCR NCP Tell D0HSC Trigger Node D0HTCC Note that the account used for typing this command must have OPER in its list of default privileges. Or you can specify another account with ... Tell D0HSC"account pwd" Trigger ... 4. You should give TCC about 2 minutes to finish booting and then try restarting the TrgMon display. After TrgMon has successfully connected to TCC you should try to reconnect COOR to TCC. A convenient way to get COOR to reconnect to TCC is by starting the Test Trigger. However, you will need to define the Test Trigger twice (during the first download COOR will reestablish its link to TCC while loosing the first message sent to define the Test Trigger, the second and all subsequent downloads will be ok). You can start the Test Trigger running to verify that events can flow up to L2 OK. If TrgMon is running and COOR has reconnected to TCC then you have successfully booted TCC and you should NOT proceed with steps #5 through #9. 5. If in step #4 TrgMon could not reconnect to TCC then TCC is probably so hung that the NCP Trigger command in step #3 did not cause TCC to boot and it will be necessary to boot TCC manually. 6. TCC and its associated BA23 box are both ON TOP OF rack M114. Neither of these units is inside this rack. You will need to have a ladder at the BACK of M114 to climb up to get at TCC and its BA23 box. From the back of M114 climb up and turn off both TCC and its BA23 box. Both of these units have labels on them near their power switches. Wait at least 30 seconds and turn both of them back on. 7. TCC will spend about one minute going through self testing. You should watch the D0HTCC Console (the VT320 terminal hanging from the ceiling in front of rack M114) to see that TCC finishes its self testing OK and that it eventually makes a >>> prompt. There will typically be a lot of other old information displayed on TCC's console so you will need to look very carefully to find the >>> prompt. 8. Once you have the >>> prompt then you need to tell TCC to boot by typing B on the keyboard of TCC's VT320 console. The keyboard for TCC's console is on top of TCC's BA23 box on top of rack M114. Please be careful to leave this keyboard on top of the BA23 box where it is out of the way and nothing can accidently touch any of the keys. During normal TCC operation it is important that none of the keys are pressed on this keyboard. 9. TCC will finish booting in about 2 minutes and you should then be able to reconnect TrgMon and COOR as described in step #4.