• Antelope Release 5.5 Mac OS X 10.8.5 2015-04-21

 

NAME

rddas - read data from RefTek DAS to orb

SYNOPSIS


rddas [-R]
    [-l]
    [-p parameter-file]
    [-s B,P,D,S]
    [-u]
    [-v]
    inport orb

SUPPORT


Contributed code: NO BRTT support.
THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE WAS CONTRIBUTED BY THE ANTELOPE USER COMMUNITY. BRTT DISCLAIMS ALL OWNERSHIP, LIABILITY, AND SUPPORT FOR THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE.

FOR HELP WITH THIS PIECE OF SOFTWARE, PLEASE CONTACT THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR.

DESCRIPTION

An rddas reads RefTek DAS which connect to a serial port inport on a computer ; tries to recognize and parse PASSCAL packet; pre-appends a specific header to each raw packet and sends it to an orb ring buffer. rddas devides all PASSCAL packets on two groups - Data packets and Information packets. Data packets corresponds to PASSCAL DT packet type. Information packets include PASSCAL AD, CD, EH, ET, OM, SH, SC packet types.

OPTIONS

EXAMPLE

Read data from a DAS which connected to a Magma port /dev/cua/0 and send them to orb on localhost; create logfile.


rddas -l /dev/cua/0 localhost

SEE ALSO

orbstat(1)

BUGS AND CAVEATS

Occasionally when attempting to read from a DAS using a Magma card on a Sun, no data will be returned. To fix this, stop the instance of rddas and reset the Magma card by doing the following:

$port will be 0,1,2,....

/opt/MAGMA_Sp/bin/magmareset /dev/cua/$port

/opt/MAGMA_Sp/bin/setport cua/$port 57600 cs8 -cstopb  parenb parodd

AUTHOR

Marina Glushko
Antelope User Group Contributed Software
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