Q330 Version History

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Versions listed below with an Alpha or Beta designator were never in general release, but their changes appear in subsequent fully-released versions.

Q330 Documents

Quanterra Notes - includes all documents and instructions for the Q330, Baler, and support software.

Q330 Operation Guide - a guide to Q330/Q330HR and Baler operation, and an overview of the support tools.

Q330 System Modules & Support Software

Willard Setup and Control Program - Release History:

• Version 1.104 build 367 (20080428) - Source Revision 115
  • Add support for setting event-only netserv.
  • Warn user when changing sensor control bitmap.
  • Add Transparent routing configuration for advanced serial and ethernet.
  • Add support for 230400 baud.
  • Handle variable rate data decimation without crashing.

Q330 Memory Modules - Release History:

• Release Version 1.105 (20080428) – Memory modules version 106 – Source Revision 76
  • Add automatic reset of auto mass recenter counters at 12:00AM Monday to re-enable automatic centering when retry counter may have been exhausted.
  • Calculate auto mass recenter sensor bitmap rather than using bitmap in recenter configuration, eliminating use of stale sensor type selection that may be inconsistent with currently selected sensor.
  • Add support for 230400 baud.

Pecos2 Data Processor - Release History:

• Version 0.83.409 (20080601)
  • Previous version did not correctly record "DP Statistics" channels.
• Version 0.82.407 (20080428) – Source Revision 19
  • Fix weblink handling for calibration abort records.
  • Implement timeout for webserver connections.
  • Add support for 230400 baud.
  • Change maximum disk usage to 256GB per station.

Pecos Data Processor - Release History:

• Version 1.47 build 510 (20080428) - Source Revision: 58
  • Version bump due to Baler shared code updates.

Cimarron Data Display - Release History:

• Version 3.97 build 1266 (20080428) – Source Revision 87
  • Add flag to add_record to allow duplicate time entries for event and calibration records.
  • When switching scan directions for tokens start with hour 0 instead of 1 to avoid missing the obvious configuration emitted at the beginning of a day.
  • Use a CRC for messages when indexing to separate different records with the same (to the second resolution) starting times.
  • Add null line to weblink requests for standards compliance.
  • Detect two records in a row with zeroed headers as an artificial end of file.

QUANCOMMON - shared application library – affecting Willard, Pecos, & Pecos2. Release History:

• Release Package 20080428 - Source Revision: 95
  • Improve use of configserver information when building station list instead of waiting for detailed station request.

XML Configuration Files

• Version 20070409
  • These updates contain the latest factory default parameter settings for the Q330 and Q330HR

Q330 Web Page

• Version 20050614 - Release Notes:
  • New unified web page supports all security models.
  • May be embedded in XML configuration file using current Willard and Q330 modules.
  • See Q330-OperationGuide for migration/import example

Q330 Software Kit - Contains current system modules and support software (Willard, Pecos, Cimarron).  Contains additional support files including Flash330, XML configuration, web page, and filter files.  Also contains current Baler14 and support software (address assign & file allocation utility, file transfer utility), as well as the PalmDP application and its configuration files.  See download table description for version numbers of selected components.

MSeedScan - Release History

• Version 3.1.0.0 – Source Revision 9 (20070409)
  • Open all files to be scanned as readonly in order not to change last modified date.
  • Added hints to explain new options that I already forgot...set displayed version to 3.0
  • Skip various full-SEED header records, such as “V”, “A”, “S”, and “T”.
  • Adapt to changing MSEED record size.
  • Assume 4K record length for records containing no or invalid Data-Only-Blockette.
  • Optionally treat records as separate streams by 'R','D','Q' record type. DMC may send duplicate data within a single file if requested.
  • Handle output of various bogus MSEED generators. option to: clip trailing samples, don't be fussy with record numbers, assume L1 if no DOB
  • Handle corrupt L2 data that might otherwise be interpreted as L3.
  • Allow writing export of split station/channel files in same directory as source file being scanned. Files will be written with station_channel appended to name.
  • Detect zero sample rate records; announce and continue processing

Baler Software

Baler14 Executable Code - Release History:

• Release 2.20 – Source Revision: 89
  • Automatic disk check disabled by default. Previously upgrade to Version 2.19 could cause a baler containing disk with damaged file structure integrity not to connect to the Q330 or baleaddr. The manual disk check function of version 2.20 in "learn mode" should be used after upgrading to 2.20 to make sure that disk structure is intact.
  • Version 2.20 will perform a hardware memory test at boot time, and prevent a baler with a hardware memory defect from connecting with the Q330 or baleaddr. In such a case, a baler upgraded to 2.20 may subsequently fail to communicate and require return for factory repair.
• Release 2.19 – Source Revision: 88
  • Don't wrap record sequence number at 999999, fixing spurious disable of event-only recording after some time. Fix gap detection code to detect 1 second gaps.
  • Clear next_blockette field. Occasionally a spurious next-blockette pointer may have been written.
  • Due to new continuation mechanism support for old 2004 leap year correction removed. Add continuity support for resuming downloads.
  • Clear out first 512 bytes of the next two data records every time a data file is written.
  • Add memory and disk check in non-learn mode.
  • Add inspect and repair using chkdsk in disk manager menu.

BaleAddr (Baler Address assign and file allocation utility) - Release History:

• Version 1.9 (20060304, 20060117) - The configuration file baleaddr.ini will now be written in the current directory from which baleaddr.exe is executed.

Reload (Baler File transfer utility) - Release History:

• Version 1.20 (20060304, 20060117)
  • The configuration file reload.ini will now be written in the current directory from which reload.exe is executed.
  • Buttons are added to preset UDP port defaults for normal or NAPT access to the baler’s control port.

BalerAdmin - Release History:

• Version 1.1.0.80
  • Added new option in config panel "Retain old data directory for started transfers" which is on by default (and is the previous default behavior). This means that if a transfer is aborted, and the data directory is changed, any transfer that was already started will continue to go to the same place, while transfers that had not yet been started will go to the new directory.

    When turned off, ALL transfers, started or otherwise, will be continued in the new data directory (for already started transfers, the filenames will match if possible, or will have the _N appended if a file of that name already exists).

  • Fixed a bug that would cause cascading errors resulting in transfers being left in "in progress" until an application restart, if the log directory became invalid.

ConfigServer - Release History:

• Version 0.0.0.13
  • ConfigServer is now available without expiration dates for the following platforms: Windows, Solaris, Linux, & OS X.
  • Better socket timeouts, to stop dead clients from slowing down the server
  • Ported to OSX, Solaris, and Linux
  • Unlike other platforms, OSX puts the ConfigServer.cfg in ~/Library/ConfigServer (and the default Stations directory resides here as well)

Demonstration Programs

Q330 Station Monitor Demo (Q330Mon.exe):

• Version 1.11 (20070409) – Source Revision 15
  • Report 330 firmware version, packet-memory errors, DP data port buffer sizes, and digitizer calibration error states.
  • Scale buffer progress bar width by proportional allocation.
  • Protect against showing status or painting when there are no stations.
  • Allow more than 100 stations. Don't force rebuilding of station list after adding a station or deleting a station.
  • Provide for automatic re-lookup of domain names for Q330s using dynamic IP addresses.

Seismic P.O.C. Demo (SeisPOC.exe):

• Version 1.6 (20060304, 20060117)
  • Adds time stamp. Demonstration “POC” message receiver program, will annunciate reception of a POC message from a remote Q330, and may optionally fork a Socorro process to initiate POC-driven cyclic data acquisition from the sending Q330.
  • Uses IP address of arriving POC packet as Q330 registration address for Pecos

LISS Client Demo Application:

• Version 1.1 (20060304, 20060117)
  • Demonstration Application that implements the USGS LISS (TCP MSEED transfer) protocol. Included to test and demonstrate LISS server mode of Pecos and Baler.

PalmDP Application

PalmDP Application - Includes factory default configuration files.  Release History:

• 19 November 2007 - Version 1.47t
  • Marked as a beta release, it has been promoted to a full release.

Mountainair Software (qmaserv)

2008-05-16 - A new release of the Mountainair source code will be available soon. It can be compiled to run under Solaris (SPARC or x86) or LINUX.

Mountainair Software (qmaserv + comserv) - Contains complete qmaserv and comserv installation.  Release History:

• 13 September 2007 - used with cLib330 2007-09-04.
• 6 August 2003 - Version 1.0.11 - Altered the client signaling sequence for proper shutdown from netmon directive.
• 4 May 2003 - Version 1.0.9 - Corrected a link time unresolved symbol problem on Sun Solaris using Sun compilers.
• 1 May 2003 - Version 1.0.8 - Updates the blockette 1001 with the frame count and a Q330 ID (6);  modified the periodic status reports;  incorporates revised channel queue management;  does not reset on DT_Open.
• 1 March 2003 - Version 1.0.4 - Modified channel queue handling for lower data rates;  modified window handling on re-registration;  changed log reports to telemetry rate over N status intervals.
• 24 October 2003 - Version 1.0.0 - First release - evaluation version.

Miscellaneous

Q330 Response Information and SEED Conventions - Posted 8 September 2003.  Contains Q330 response description document & filter coefficient files with single-stage representation of the instrument response for different sampling rates and filter types (linear phase, minimum phase).  Release History:

• 9 September 2003 - Version 1.0 - Initial release.

Q330 Developer's Tools

Q330 Software Protocols & Data Structures

Q330 Communications Protocol - Release History:

• Rev 20 - System software version 1.105. Changes made in this version are marked in the document.

Q330 DP Token Definitions - Updated 18 March 2003.  Release History:

Q330 DP Writer's Guide - Updated 18 March 2003.  Release History:

• A text version of the DP Writer's Guide is available if you want to extract some data structures.

Baler14 File Structure - Updated 13 June 2002.

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Last updated 2008-06-19