Connecting to the drive, Connecting to the drive -6 – Rockwell Automation 9303 DRIVE TOOLS32 GETTING STARTED User Manual

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Setting Up an Allen-Bradley Ethernet to RIO Block Transfer Pass Thru Communications System

Publication 9303-5.13 – March 1998

6.

If applicable, select 1336T Two Word Header (Use ONLY for 1336T
version 0.10)
.

7.

Click OK. A window displaying information about RIO Block Transfer
Pass Thru communications appears.

8.

Read it and click OK.

Connecting to the
Drive

To connect to the drive, you need to:

1.

From the Drive menu, select Connect to Drive. The Ethernet Connect to
Drive
dialog box appears.

2.

In the Enter Drive Rack # field, enter the RIO rack number associated with
this drive.

The rack number is specified in octal and is set in the communication
adapter for the drive.

3.

In the Enter Starting Group # field, enter the RIO starting group number
associated with this drive.

The RIO starting group number is set in the communication adapter for the
drive. Valid starting group numbers are 0, 2, 4, and 6.

4.

If necessary, click Use 1395 Protocol.

5.

Click OK.

After a short pause, either the DriveManager32 screen with the drive parameters
appears, or you are prompted to create a database.

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