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SMU fault recovery

Suggested fixes to previous faults involving the SMU

The faults below are ordered by occurrence during 2001. The suggested fixes have worked in the past, but, as with investing, this is no guarantee of future success . . .

% of SMU faults
Symptoms
Fix ?
20
TEL task dies or timesout
reload TCS
13
(w/ SCUBA)
chop (phase) error
recycle SCUBA s/w
(and/or ADAMNET,
& maybe check sig.sync.cable)
13
slew to ZENITH
reload s/w
13
non-specific or general failures
try msmu 0 0 0 or
smu_enable_tables or
smu_load
13
other

10
coordinate problems
(read error messages) or
nod fail
(now trapped for)
reset coordinate system
10
recon-figuration failures
restart busses, or
restart all s/w
7
SCUBA skydip or STOP_CHOP fail
resubmit odf to queue

Latest update : 26 Feb 2002
Iain Coulson

Contact: Iain Coulson. Updated: Sat Nov 6 19:06:29 HST 2004

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