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User’s Guide 21020285 D
Chapter 3 Hardware Installation
Step 4: Apply power and observe LEDs Page 3 - 13
Error
Conditions
The amber LED is used to indicate an error condition. These are the conditions
indicated by the amber LED:
BLINKS - This indicates that the adapter has had a self-test failure.
STAYS ON SOLIDLY - This indicates that the board has had a catastrophic
error during operation such as bus error or timeout. The Status port will contain
an error code that details the type of failure that occurred. These error codes are:
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 Start/
Stop Command List
command
The code is returned under these conditions:
Start Command List
command issued 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 are was written by adapter.
14H
Software VMEbus
Timeout
The adapter times each of its VMEbus transfers; it will report
this if a VMEbus transfer takes too long to complete. This
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 15: Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes