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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For information I am also working the same project as Ian Norton (Cranfield Aerospace).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We have obtained and by using sii_write updated the eeproms on both our slaves.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Attached are file showing an sii_read of each slave.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">However when we do 'ethercat start' in dmesg we are seeing the following:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1817.699538] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1817.699636] e1000 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1817.950924] e1000: 0000:02:09.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:08:0d:ef:34:53</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1817.992743] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.275633] EtherCAT: Master driver devel 742607c464c4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.275759] EtherCAT: 1 master waiting for devices.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.318140] e1000 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A disabled</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.327586] EtherCAT Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.327590] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.327662] ec_e1000 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKE] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.578681] ec_e1000: 0000:02:09.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:08:0d:ef:34:53</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.612858] EtherCAT: Accepting device 00:08:0D:EF:34:53 for master 0.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.613368] EtherCAT: Starting EtherCAT-IDLE thread.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1850.613416] ec_e1000: ec0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.612414] ec_e1000: ec0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.612427] EtherCAT: Link state changed to UP.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.616928] EtherCAT: 2 slave(s) responding.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.616935] EtherCAT: Slave states: INIT, PREOP.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.616999] EtherCAT: Scanning bus.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.815792] EtherCAT ERROR: SDO upload 0x1702:00 aborted on slave 0.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.815800] EtherCAT ERROR: SDO abort message 0x06020000: "This object does not exist in the object directory".</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.815803] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read number of mapped PDO entries.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.815807] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read mapped PDO entries for PDO 0x1702.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.822636] EtherCAT ERROR: SDO upload 0x1B01:00 aborted on slave 0.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.822642] EtherCAT ERROR: SDO abort message 0x06020000: "This object does not exist in the object directory".</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.822646] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read number of mapped PDO entries.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1852.822649] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read mapped PDO entries for PDO 0x1B01.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1853.876031] EtherCAT ERROR: Timeout after 1000 ms while waiting for SDO 0x1c12:0 upload response on slave 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1853.876038] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read number of assigned PDOs for SM2 of slave 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1854.876026] EtherCAT ERROR: Timeout after 1000 ms while waiting for SDO 0x1c13:0 upload response on slave 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1854.876032] EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read number of assigned PDOs for SM3 of slave 1.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[ 1854.876036] EtherCAT: Bus scanning completed in 2260 ms.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can anyone help explain what is happening and what we should do to get rid of these errors please?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS">regards</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Comic Sans MS">Alison</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<sii_read_km_new>> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<sii_read_f_new>> </FONT>
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