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21020285 D User’s Guide
Appendix A Error Codes
Page A - 6 Status Port Error Codes
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 command List PBIN or SBOUT value exceeded the
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 Error
A
Target Mode Selection Area Read Channel
Attention
issued when no selection area was written 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 transfers of parameters as
well as transfers of 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 118: Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes