Bring your own kit

A Beamline Visitor Instrumentation Network will be made available to connect users' equipment that needs access to the beamline network. e.g. Specialist sample environments.

Process Variables (PVs) published by the beamline are visible on this network. Users must give at least 2 weeks advance notice if they require the use of this network. For more information regarding experimental equipment, Please consult your Beamline contact.

These devices must not be connected to any Diamond Network other than the Visitor Network either wirelessly  (SSID - "DLS-VIS") or wired connection (Black CAT6 cables only).

It is recommended that only hard-disk drives with their own power supply are used in conjunction with the Beamline DataDispensers as it has been found that hard-disk drives that draw power from the data bus can be unreliable in heavy use.

You can use either USB-2 or USB-3 connections. (Newer DataDispensers do not have eSATA interfaces). USB-3 is faster so long as these 3 requirements are all satisfied:
 

1. Your Disk must be a USB-3 device
2. The connecting cable must be a USB-3 Cable
3. You must use a USB-3 port on the DataDispenser
4. If the drive is formatted FAT or Ex-FAT (windows) then they are not normally compatible within the linux file system and aren't recognised
5. Disks with Linux partitions Ext3 etc work, as does NTFS, and it may be necessary to format them like that to get them working