Re: NI6036 PCMCIA Card Continuous Acquisition Stops

From: Richard Leao <richardson.leao_at_anu.edu.au> · Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:09:10 +1100

if you are using RTAI you should disable power management support and
all the other optins into IDE, PCI etc that requires sharing IRQ. That
works for me (NI6062E) but without RTAI I've never had any problem.

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:51 +0000, Blacker, Phil M wrote:
> I have installed comedi-0.6.69 and comedilib-0.7.22.  I wrote a program to
> continuously acquire data using a PCMCIA NI6036E card, but it would randomly
> freeze.  There would be no error returned by comedilib or in the syslogs.
> The card will just stop returning any samples.
> 
> I enabled DEBUG_INTERRUPT, DEBUG_STATUS_A and DEBUG_STATUS_B in
> ni_mio_common.c.  With this the final messages before the card stops are:
> 
> ni_mio_common: interrupt: a_statusa033 m0_status=00000000
> A status: interrupt_a fifo_half_full start stop fifo passthru0
> handle_a_interrupt: BUG, didn't clear interrupt. disabling.
> 
> 
> I have scanned through ni_mio_common.c, but am none the wiser.
> 
> Could someone who has a better understanding of the driver better have a
> look.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil
>  
> 
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