Perle Systems RIO 5500036-17 User Manual

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RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
Windows NT troubleshooting

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5. At the Dos prompt, type

riodiags

<options> and press the

Enter

key.

Where <options> are the commands needed to the different types of test available.

The general types of tests available are shown in the next table. For details of commands,
see

Test options guide

on page

315

and

Additional options

on page

317

.

The complete suite of tests will commence.

6. Should any of the other tests indicate a failure, check your host card’s physical address or

interrupt are not clashing with other devices/memory. Do this by using the

-installed

information query (see

Additional options

on page

317

). Try a different interrupt and/or

memory address for the RIO card.

7. Upon completion of the tests, press the

Esc

key to return to the DOS prompt.

Type of test

To run this type of test..

Individual tests

At the dos prompt, type

riodiags

followed by the test

option you require. For example,

riodiags -cpu

:

Multiple tests

At the dos prompt, type

riodiags

followed by the test

names on the same command line separated by spaces,
for example,

riodiags -cpu -prom -config

Running tests
on multiple
host cards

At the dos prompt, type

riodiags -board <board number>, <board number>

, etc.

up to the maximum of four cards. If one of the cards is an
ISA card, add the string

-isa <address> after riodiags

For example,

riodiags -board 0,1,2 cpu

and

riodiags -isa 0xd0000 -board 0,1,2 -cpu

Specify the test name in either upper or lower case; the
test identifier can be either ‘-’ or ‘/’.

Note

In the event of a test failure the programme will not execute the remainder of the tests. If you
can, clear the problem on the failed test and re-run the tests.

Note

If all the tests pass, the programme will complete and return you to the DOS prompt.

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