Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 20:20:38 -0800
From: Russell E Owen
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20051231 (MJD 53736)
At 12:20 PM +0000 1/1/06, observer@sdsshost2.apo.nmsu.edu wrote:
>         Only one small problem during the afternoon checkout.
>
>         There is an error message from the TCC each time a guider
>         frame is taken.
>
>         Modu="prt_ReadReplySet"; Text="too few replies on port LTA11:"
>         Text="doread failed"
>
>         The Guider Mac shows after every doread line  "ReplyStream error"
>
>         However the camera is taking frames (sop's guider monitor
>         shows new frames after each gcam command), so I am not sure
>         what the complaint is about.  Knowing how hard it can be to get
>         going again when things are power cycled, rebooted, etc,
>         I am loath to mess with it if it is working, even with
>         complaints.  However a careful eye should be kept on it
>         that it indeed continues to take frames when requested.
This is almost certainly a problem in the guide image controller.
Quitting the GIm Ctrl application and restarting it will probably
correct it (and is very unlikely to cause any other problems -- so
long as you do a GCAM INIT or SET INST on the TCC afterwards). If
that does not work, then I would try rebooting the guider Mac.
-- Russell