8 Host Utilities

8 Host Utilities

This section describes some of the utilities that can be used with the Dialogic® DSI SPCI Network Interface Boards. See the software environment Programmer's Manual for details of the gctload, tim, tick, s7_log and s7_play utilities.

8.1ssds

8.1.1Description

The ssds utility interfaces with the device driver for passing messages to and from the board and controls the downloading software to the board.

The ssds utility also controls the mapping of configured to handle different modes of addressing for each board within a system. This functionality is described as Geographic Addressing.

can be based on either the PCI bus enumeration or the ADDR switch setting on the board.

If ssds is defined as the congestion-handling module for gctload then it will stop retrieving messages from the board until the congestion abates. Other congestion handling steps may be required depending on the system configuration and state.

8.1.2Syntax

ssds [-v -d]

8.1.3Command Line Options

The ssds utility supports the following command line options:

-o

This parameter specifies the Geographic Addressing mode of operation. It can take the following values:

-o1 PCI address mode

-o3 Switch address mode

If the parameter is omitted then operation defaults to PCI address mode. See section 4.5 Geographic Addressing for further information.

-a

For Switch address modes it is necessary to specify a second command line parameter (-a) for ssds containing a list of the addresses for each logical board position (or board_id) derived from the ADDR switch setting. The address list format is:

-a6,4,2,3,12,14

Up to a maximum of 16 addresses can be specified in this list.

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