Rockwell Automation 1770-KF2 Data Highway or Highway Plus Interface Module User Manual User Manual

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Error Reporting

Chapter 7

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10. Wrong Destination Address: Counts the number of frames that

were rejected because the destination address was incorrect. This
can have the same cause as #8. This counter also detects frames that
have the same source and destination address.

11. Receiver/Memory Full: Counts the number of times that the

receiver sent an ACK without first being able to allocate a receive
buffer. This will result in a memory overflow error when the next
message is received.

12. Bad Frame Status: Counts the number of frames that were rejected

because of a bad CRC. This error is very common on a noisy
highway.

13. Buffer Overflow: Counts the number of times a message was

received that contained more than 250 bytes.

14. Memory Overflow: Counts the number of times a message was

received when there was no buffer space allocated for it. This
usually follows a “memory full” error.

15. Retransmits: Counts the number of duplicate frames received. A

duplicate frame is sent by a transmitter when it fails to receive an
ACK. If the reason it failed to receive an ACK was that the ACK
was lost, rather than because the original message was lost, the
duplicate is redundant and should be discarded. Any two successive
messages between polls that have the same sequence number fields
and the same command/reply bit are assumed to be duplicates.

16. Aborts: Counts the number of aborts received. The HDLC abort

signal is not used on the Data Highway, but can be detected by the
SIO in certain circumstances. Some stations whose addresses match
the ringing pattern after a transmitter shutoff can be particularly
susceptible to this error (Stations 36, 76, and 176 for example).
These numbers will depend on highway configurations.

17. Transmitted Messages: A 16-bit counter that records the number of

messages successfully transmitted.

18. Not used.

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