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 In order to run the combined S800 + Gretina daq, the following steps need to be taken: In order to run the combined S800 + Gretina daq, the following steps need to be taken:
  
 +  - Makesure that the external synchronization and external clock are enabled in the S800 ULM trigger module. Edit file **CC0105Begin.tcl** in directory **/user/s800/converged_daq/Scripts**, and set the values of the variables **extsynch** and **extclock** to 1.
   - [[S800 DAQ tools#Running the S800 DAQ|Run the S800 ReadoutGUI]] for the S800 data acquisition system as you normally would on spdaq19, and click the ''Start'' button.      - [[S800 DAQ tools#Running the S800 DAQ|Run the S800 ReadoutGUI]] for the S800 data acquisition system as you normally would on spdaq19, and click the ''Start'' button.   
   - Log in using the experimental account to **ddasdaq3** or any other of the systems dual homed to the GRETINA/NSCLDAQ network.   - Log in using the experimental account to **ddasdaq3** or any other of the systems dual homed to the GRETINA/NSCLDAQ network.
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   * **spdaq19.s800filter**: It will provide the event built, reformated data from the S800 Filter. During a run, data are pushed from this ring into the GRETINA GEB.   * **spdaq19.s800filter**: It will provide the event built, reformated data from the S800 Filter. During a run, data are pushed from this ring into the GRETINA GEB.
  
-In addition to the normal **stagearea** structure, three directories are added that will be used to store raw S800 data:+In addition to the normal **stagearea** structure in the experiment account, three directories are added that will be used to store raw S800 data:
  
   * **~/stagearea/rawccusb**: Event files containing raw CCUSB data from the S800.   * **~/stagearea/rawccusb**: Event files containing raw CCUSB data from the S800.
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-1. On spdaq48 in /user/s800/operations/daq/usb/TclXXUSB do: 
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-**wish ./RunControl.tcl** 
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-or, on devop2 (the S800 MAC machine) 
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-click on the operations folder on the lower icon bar and select runcontrol.command 
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-2. On a dataU machine logged in as the experimental account (e11007 for the June 2012 testing period) do 
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-**godaq** 
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-3. On spdaq44 do:  
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-**/usr/opt/daq/10.1/bin/ringbuffer status**. The output should look similar to: 
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-<code> 
- +----------------+------------+-------+-------------+--------+---------+---------+------+-------------+ 
- |Name            |data-size(k)|free(k)|max_consumers|producer|maxget(k)|minget(k)|client|clientdata(k)| 
- +----------------+------------+-------+-------------+--------+---------+---------+------+-------------+ 
- |0400x           |8195        |8195   |100          |-1      |0        |0        |-     |-            | 
- |s800            |8195        |8195   |100          |7485    |0        |0        |-     |-            | 
- |-               |-           |-      |-            |-       |-        |-        |9143  |0            | 
- |segatest        |8195        |8195   |100          |-1      |0        |0        |-     |-            | 
- |spdaq48.0400x   |8195        |8195   |100          |17205   |0        |0        |-     |-            | 
- |spdaq48.segatest|8195        |8195   |100          |-1      |0        |0        |-     |-            | 
- +----------------+------------+-------+-------------+--------+---------+---------+------+-------------+ 
-</code> 
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-Upon start of run there will be another client of the s800 ring, which is the pushToGEB process. This should die on end run. 
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-The S800 daq will now be in slave mode, and run control is done from the NSCL daq window. 
  
  
  
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