Ciprico Rimfire 3880 manual Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes

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Chapter 2

Hardware Essentials

Status Port

 

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Code - Board Type or Error Code - When the ERR bit is set to one, this byte will contain a catastrophic error code. If the ERR bit is zero, the code byte will contain the Ciprico board type.

02 Any Ciprico VME/SCSI product. Other than 02 Catastrophic Error Code.

There are several catastrophic error codes:

Code

Name

Description

10H

Bad PBIN or SBOUT

The Command List PBIN or SBOUT value exceeded the

Value

value set for PBNUM or SBNUM.

 

 

 

The code is returned under these conditions:

 

 

Start Command List command issued a command list is

 

State wrong for Start/

already active.

11H

Stop Command List

Stop Command List command issued when no command

 

command

list is presently active.

 

 

Command List Channel Attention issued when no

 

 

Command List is active.

12H

Target Mode Error

A Target Mode Selection Area Read Channel Attention

issued when no selection are was written by adapter.

 

 

14H

Software VMEbus

The adapter times each of its VMEbus transfers; it will report

this if a VMEbus transfer takes too long to complete. This

Timeout

 

can occur for transfers of parameters as well as data.

 

 

 

 

15H

VMEbus Error Occurred A VMEbus error was detected while the adapter was

 

 

transferring either parameters or data.

96H

Internal Firmware Error

This error code indicates that a Firmware error was detected

 

 

during the execution of a command.

 

 

 

Table 12: Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes

To access the Status Port, use an offset of 10H from the base address of the adapter (which is set by jumpers on the board).

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Ciprico Rimfire 3880 manual Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes