[etherlab-users] Yaskawa Sigma-5 no Vendor ID or Product Code Failed to read SII size of slave 0.

[Henry Bausley]

Sorry for the delay.  I was traveling and did not have access to the
hardware temporarily.  I would like to be able to go to the
North American EtherCAT Plug Fest  if I can get the Yaskawa Servo Drive
to function.


EtherCAT: 1 master waiting for devices.
ec_r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
root at 10.34.9.210:/opt/etherlab.2/bin# EtherCAT 0: Link state changed to
UP.
EtherCAT 0: 1 slave(s) responding.
EtherCAT 0: Scanning bus.
EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Error on last command while reading from SII word
0x0080.
EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Failed to determine SII content size: Reading word
offset 0.
EtherCAT 0: Bus scanning completed in 18 ms.

root at 10.34.9.210:/opt/etherlab.2/bin# dmesg
EtherCAT 0: Link state changed to UP.
EtherCAT 0: 1 slave(s) responding.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Init FSM.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Sending broadcast-write to measure transmission
delays.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: 1 slaves responded to delay measuring.
EtherCAT 0: Scanning bus.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Slave has the System Time register.
EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Error on last command while reading from SII word
0x0080.
EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Failed to determine SII content size: Reading word
offset 0.
EtherCAT 0: Bus scanning completed in 18 ms.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: Writing system time offsets...
EtherCAT DEBUG 0: No app_time received up to now.
EtherCAT DEBUG 0-0: Ready for requests.






On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:55 +0200, Florian Pose wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:25:55PM -0700, Henry Bausley wrote:
> > Below is the answer I received from Yaskawa, the developers are in
> > Japan. This is the only time I have seen a device return 0's for Vendor
> > and Product code.  They claim everything is there and it can't be
> > change. The device is recognized by TwinCat so  the data must be in the
> > device.  
> > 
> > Any ideas of what I can look at to find the cause of the   SII: Error on
> > last SII command and  EtherCAT ERROR: Failed to read SII size of slave 0
> > errors?
> 
> The vendor ID etc. keep being zero, because the SII is not read at all.
> 
> I slightly improved the SII error messages and pushed it to YourceForge.
> Please try the newest version and also enable the SII_DEBUG macro in
> master/fsm_sii.c.
> 
> Please power down your device, then set the debug level to 1 and power
> up the device and post the logs until the SII error.
> 

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