[etherlab-users] SDO dictionary upload "Input/output error"

[Gary Grobe]

I'm trying to upload the SDO dictionary in order to compare user 
configurations against the dictionary before activating the master. 
Using Etherlab 1.5.2 with 4.19.90-rt35.

An SDO upload usually takes 10-15 seconds (Elmo's have large 
dictionaries) and only after that time does the error get issued. 
Running the command again would quickly succeed and then continue on to 
the next slave. I get the feeling the second time around it would find 
that it already uploaded (cached in the master?) and then move on to the 
next slave. But lately it's gotten worse. I can issue commands via the 
ethercat tool just fine, with exception to "sdos." My app and the 
ethercat tool give the same results.

"Failed to upload dictionary: Input/output error"

In the past when working with /dev handles, an error such as this would 
cause me to look at hardware, but I'm just not seeing anything wrong w/ 
my connections.

I'm aware of the different ways of doing SDO transfers (e.g., 
ecrt_master_sdo_upload() for a single SDO, and others to configure or 
get after having activated the master). But what I'm doing is very 
similar to how the ethercat tool does it's uploads, via the ioctl 
interface and the results are the same.

     device_name = "/dev/EtherCAT";
     // ...

     if ((fd = ::open(device_name.c_str(), flags)) == -1) { /* ... */ }

     // mod info ... ioctl interface vers. ...

     // get master
     if (ioctl(fd, EC_IOCTL_MASTER, data.get()) < 0) { /* ... */ }

     // discovery happening here ...

     // upload SDO dictionary
     if (si->coe_details.enable_sdo_info) {
         // ...

         if (upload_sdo_dictionary(dict_upload) < 0)
             return nullptr;
     }

int EthercatDiscovery::upload_sdo_dictionary(
     std::shared_ptr<ec_ioctl_slave_dict_upload_t> data)
{
     if (ioctl(fd, EC_IOCTL_SLAVE_DICT_UPLOAD, data.get()) < 0) {
         std::cerr << "Error: failed to upload dictionary: " <<
             strerror(errno) << std::endl;

         // The errno here will result in "Input/output error"

         return -1;
     }

     return 0;
}

So it would appear that the master is aborting the SDO upload. Can 
anyone offer advice as to what might be happening here?






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