21020285 D User’s Guide
Appendix A Error Codes
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Status Port Error Codes
In addition to the Error Codes that are reported in the Status Block of the
command, there is a group of codes that are used to report Self-test anomalies
and also Catastrophic Error Conditions. These are reported in the Status Port.

Catastrophic

Error Codes
Catastrophic Error Codes are returned in the Status Port because conditions are
such that it is unlikely that a Status Block could be read. The Status Port format
at these times is as shown below:
The Catastrophic Error Code field can be seen above.
The codes that can be returned in this field of the Status Port are described
below:
BIT
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Code 0 ERR 0 0 RDY ENT
Table 117: Status Port: General
Code Name Description
10H Bad PBIN or
SBOUT Value The comma nd L ist PBI N or SBOU T valu e e xce ede d th e
value set for PBNUM or SBNUM.
11H
State wrong for
Star/Stop
Command List
command
This code is returned under these conditions:
Start Command List command issued when a
command list is already active.
Stop Command List command issued when no
command list is presently active .
Command List Channel Attention issued when no
Command List is active.
12H Target Mode ErrorA Target Mode Selection Area Read Channel
Attention issued when no selection a rea wa s w ritt en by
adapter.
14H Software VMEbus
Timeout
The adapter times each of its VMEbus transfers; it will
report this error if a VMEbus transfer takes too long to
complete. This can occur for tr ansfers of parameters as
well as transfers of data.
15H VMEbus Error
Occurred A VMEbus error was detected while the adapter was
transferring either param e ters or data.
96H Internal Firmware
Error This error code indicates that a Firmware error was
detected during the execution of a command.
Table 118: Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes