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OS/2 - Technical => Communication => Topic started by: miturbide on 2010.03.16, 19:59:16

Title: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: miturbide on 2010.03.16, 19:59:16
HI

Today I found a local scada system called Ilex running under OS/2 Warp 3, for an energy sub-center. It was up an running like for 15 years and today started to give problems due hardware issues.

Does anybody has documentation about this ILex or had hear about it ?
Its web site does not say anything about OS/2 anymore.

http://www.c3ilex.com/products/index.html#lit (http://www.c3ilex.com/products/index.html#lit)

Anything will be usefull, since I can not find any documentation at all.
Title: Re: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: ivan on 2010.03.16, 21:26:22
Have you tried e-mailing them?  Someone might have some information tucked away in a file cabinet.

ivan
Title: Re: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: miturbide on 2010.03.16, 22:47:33
Yes, for the moment they had told me to buy the upgrade to the Windows version.
Title: Re: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: RobertM on 2010.03.17, 02:40:34
Quote from: miturbide on 2010.03.16, 22:47:33
Yes, for the moment they had told me to buy the upgrade to the Windows version.

Is the issue hard drive related? If not, maybe a new machine, fresh install of OS/2, copy the program files and directories from the old drive, insert any relevant config.sys lines, and then use an INI editor to find any entries on the old drive's ini files that are relevant and add them to the ini files on the new computer.

Not an ideal solution... but one that may work - assuming the hard drive is ok in the old system.

Best,
Robert
Title: Re: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: miturbide on 2010.03.17, 03:55:57
Robert, the idea is good. But the problem is that ILEX uses an ISA communication card. So I can not move it to a newer machine that doesn't have an ISA port.

I checked this case further. This ISA card was created by ILEX. It has two RJ45 ports on the back, but it is to connect to an scada system using Gestel 101 protocol.
The driver on the config.sys is:
c:\sedisg\s\scdrv.sys -n2 -i4

It boots normally it says it is on IRQ 4 and port 220. The ILEX software runs and two of the fours leds lights on the back of the card but the software does not show any data from the scada system.

This ISA card was damage by some voltage change and some chipset were replaced on the card, when it was reinserted to the OS/2 machine it didn't work. It was reinserted on the same ISA slot and no changed were made in the OS/2 machine.

It is on Warp 3 rel.8.234 and to the software version is Ilex full graphics scada interface 6.20

I think it is more of a hardware problem with this ISA card, or possible something with the Ilex software, since the driver seems to load fine when OS/2 boots.
Title: Re: ilex full graphic scada interface
Post by: Andi on 2010.03.17, 12:40:03
Quote from: miturbide on 2010.03.17, 03:55:57
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It boots normally it says it is on IRQ 4 and port 220. The ILEX software runs and two of the fours leds lights on the back of the card but the ....
I think it is more of a hardware problem with this ISA card, ...
As you mentioned it seems more to be a HW than a SW problem. Only thing that comes to mind is IRQ4 which is usually reserved for com1: Maybe if its a PNP Bios and booted up without the card the IRQs were missarranged. Or your cards IRQ were unintentionally changed to IRQ4. With ISA cards IRQ and address settings usually were made with DIP-switches or jumpers.