CAMAC Progress Report

                      Week Ending: March 16, 2001
                                Week: 7

Tom Folkers:
     1. New BSI rack mounted computers arrive. Spend several days 
        getting Linux installed, checking them out.
     2. Turns out RedHat Linux 7.0 has major issues a far as the 
        kernel code is concerned. It seems that there is a mix of 
        2.2.x and 2.4.x code present at the same time. Bottom line is 
        you can not easily work on kernel drivers.
     3. Spent more time reinstalling RedHat 6.2 Linux in BSI 
        computers.
     4. New control computer, smtcont, arrives. This is a dual monitor 
        Linux machine and as such getting the Xserver and display 
        drivers sorted out is taking some extra time. On the other 
        hand it appears to be a screaming machine.
     5. One of the BSI computers has a bad habit of locking the 
        keyboard at random times. We know of no other way to unlock it 
        except to power off the whole machine. A call to the tech 
        support nets us only a RMA number. I ship it back on Friday, 
        ironically the same day the 4th. BSI computer arrives.

Tom Sargent:
     1. This week, since we received the Tracker/Servo computer and 
        the PC/104 adapter, I was able to get the linux driver for the 
        IRIG interface running.  The IRIG interface is also now 
        producing the precision 2KHz signal that will be used to 
        sample the shaft encoder output, and the 10 Hz signal for the 
        SAM bus.
     2. I need yet to add one or two ioctl calls and then the driver 
        will be done.

Pete Hubbard:
     1. Received quote from Pittman on 26 mm motors.
     2. Berg catalog arrived picked six beam flex coupling for hooking 
        motor to Rod 456 encoder.
     3. Krupp rack continuing with interface with new electronics.
     4. Helping Tom Sargent with IRIG Interface hardware in the lab