[etherlab-users] Timeout while checking SDO dictionary...

[Florian Pose]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:51:11PM +0900, Hobin Yoon wrote:
> I've succeeded in running mini on Beckhoff EL9820. But failed to run
> our in-house test board. It has ESC FB1111-0140. I got the following
> SDO dictionary error. When I run mini, it can't get any data in cyclic
> operation. Can somebody help me figure out what it means and how to
> solve it? Plz shed some light. Thank you.
>
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Fetching SDO dictionary from slave 0.
> EtherCAT ERROR: Timeout while checking SDO dictionary on slave 0.

this has nothing to do with your process data. It's just a message, that
the Sdo dictionary couldn't be read out.
 
> After mini is insmoded:
> 
> [EC_TEST 661] ecrt_request_master(0)...
> EtherCAT: Requesting master 0...
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Waiting for pending slave configuration returned.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Waiting for pending slave scan returned.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Switching to operation mode.
> EtherCAT: Successfully requested master 0.
> [EC_TEST 669] Registering domain...
> [EC_TEST 675] Configuring alternative PDO mapping...
> [EC_TEST 697] Registering PDOs...
> [EC_TEST 747] ecrt_master_activate()...
> EtherCAT: Domain 0 - Allocated 8 bytes in 1 datagram.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Changing state of slave 0 (PREOP -> OP).
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Configuring slave 0...
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Slave 0 is now in INIT.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Clearing FMMU configurations of slave 0...
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Configuring mailbox sync managers of slave 0.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM0: Addr 0x1000, Size 128, Ctrl 0x26, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM1: Addr 0x1400, Size 128, Ctrl 0x22, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Slave 0 is now in PREOP.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM0: Addr 0x1000, Size 128, Ctrl 0x26, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM1: Addr 0x1400, Size 128, Ctrl 0x22, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM2: Addr 0x1800, Size   2, Ctrl 0x64, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: SM3: Addr 0x1C00, Size   6, Ctrl 0x20, En 1
> EtherCAT DEBUG: FMMU0: LogAddr 0x00000000, Size   2, PhysAddr 0x1800, Dir out
> EtherCAT DEBUG: FMMU1: LogAddr 0x00000002, Size   6, PhysAddr 0x1C00, Dir in
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Slave 0 is now in SAVEOP.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Slave 0 is now in OP.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Finished configuration of slave 0.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: Master IDLE thread exiting...
> EtherCAT: Master thread exited.
> EtherCAT DEBUG: FSM datagram is f23502b4.
> EtherCAT: Starting master thread.
> [EC_TEST 753] Starting cyclic sample thread.
> [EC_TEST 760] Started.
> EtherCAT: Domain 0 working counter change: 3
> [EC_TEST 536] slaves_responding changed to 1.

This looks good. Your slave seems to exchange inputs and outputs.

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Best regards,
Florian Pose

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