Hello,

Who can tell me what exact version of "QNX" is used on MARK-V and MARK-V-LM-Panels as operating system, especially in 2000/2001?

Is it 4.25?
Is it Neutrino 2.0?
Is it Neutrino 2.1?

What UNIX- or LINUX-related command might give me this information using the MD-DOS-prompt on a HMI?

Who knows?

Thanks in advance!
Marco

 

"uname -a" will give you the OS version on most unix-like operating systems. That is just for the OS itself. Any packages installed on top of that would have to be investigated separately.

 

The Mark V cores are 16-bit microcontrollers running proprietary firmware, not QNX. The <I> runs on IDOS, and later HMIs are all windows based.

The Mark VI runs on QNX 4.25.

The Mark VIe runs on QNX 6 to 6.3 depending on firmware version.

I can't imagine how knowing all of this would help you, but I hope it does.

 

Hello Demigrog,

yes it does! Every piece of information helps. I will tell you later why I wanted to know all this. It will take some minutes to give you all of the background and if I write it to all my friends here I don't want to do it spontaneously, but detailed. But what I can tell you now is that the WinSys-Edition of the MARK-V-LM Panel for aeroderivative DLE-gas-turbines indeed uses QNX. Actually, that is what the MARK-V-LM Functional Manual is saying (Yes I have this manual and I am proud to have it and it took me years to get a copy of it). But even so, it doesn't tell what version of QNX was being used.

Beside this I believe there are lot more differences between the MARK-V and the MARK-V-LM Panels. They look the same, but in detail they are not.

With the information I got from M Griffin I will probably be a bit wiser tomorrow when I am back on that specific site to try out the "uname"-command.

I will come back to this discussion later!

Thanks to all of you!

Marco

 

Hello Everybody,

yesterday I've found out that the QNX-Version of our MARKV-LM-Panel installed in 2001 for a LM2500DLE-engine is 4.22. So now it is for sure that QNX was already used on MARK-V Panels, but I believe only on the later LM-DLE-Versions, due to the demand for very high processor-performance in those days.

@M Griffin:
I couldn't use the LINUX "uname -a" command, because the only possibility to manually communicate with the main-processor is using the MS-DOS-Prompt on a remote HMI, which is running WIN-NT. But with the MKV-LM "UDF" command (which refers to the download-command of a MKV-Standard-System) it was possible to explore the file-structure of the main-processor online. In the folder "//etc/version" I found a file called "qnx" which I transfered to the remote HMI. By opening this file with a text-editor it revealed a single text-line containg the operating systems version.

I come back to this thread later, explaining why I was so curious about the qnx-version. I'm a bit in a hurry now...

Thanks again to all of you!

Regards,
Marco