Yokogawa CS HIS Vnet Startup

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Peter Blyth

Hi people,

We have a problem with a Yokogawa CS1000 HIS whereby when the Vnet (10B2 style cabling) is connected and the HIS PC is rebooted, the process BKconnect (basically the first application to start - I think) hangs during startup (100% repeatable). This can be remedied by disconnecting the Vnet cables, rebooting the HIS, and reconnecting the Vnet cables once the HIS application has started.

I have also seen this exact same problem on Free BSD PICS - in the past we would tolerate this behaviour as it was easier to reinstall the PC.

I suspect there is some kind of low-level PCI/Vnet card clash occuring, where if the Vnet card is receiving messages from the Vnet bus, it does not initialise correctly, and the PCs O/S is unable to recognise the presence of the Vnet card.

Q1. Has anyone seen this before?
Q2. Any suggestions to make this problem go away without conducting a full reinstall?

Regards, PB
 
I have experienced this problem when the Vnet 1 & 2 are reversed somewhere in the line, even though the vnet status shows to be good.
 
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