Progress

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

It has been a tough few days.  TOM1 died and I had to really work to find 
the problem.  Well, I still have not found the actual sickness, but it was 
caused by the clock failing to stop on the scanner.  No doubt a sick chip 
somewhere.  Replacing the stamp board finally cured the problem.  This was 
complicated by my simultaneous search for a software problem.  This is 
motivation to get the test stand running again so I can fix boards and have 
a set that I know is good.

The result was that I really looked at the memory board logic and the code 
associated with it.  I do not understand how it worked at all with the code 
I was using.  I understand the new code and have also written a memory card 
diagnostic.

It has been cloudy, so there is no real loss of data.  Tonight I should 
finish up flat fielding all the systems and I should be ready to run all 
the systems when the weather clears, possibly tomorrow night.

Meanwhile, I have been working on procedures for running the new version of 
the pipeline.  I am almost set up so that soon I will start reprocessing 
everything with the new code.  Just one computer problem.  A nice new 2GHz 
computer refuses to talk to ethernet.  Sigh!  There is always something.

Tom Droege