Rockwell Automation 8520 9/Series CNC Integration Maintenance Manual Documentation Set User Manual

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Section 15B

Replacement Procedures

15B-3

To install the executive software follow this procedure:

1.

At the external drive prompt, insert the disk labeled A into your external

drive and type update source: destination: <dir>

where:

source = source drive

destination = destination drive

dir = optional directory name that will be created on destination drive:

For example when you type:

update a:d:

This screen appears:

Update Utility

Revision 2.0

Allen-Bradley Company, 1992

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This utility will update the executive software

on your 9/230, 9/260 or 9/290 CNC.

It will use drive “a:” as the source of the update,

and drive “d:” for a scratch directory, “$update$”, which will be removed upon

completion of the utility.

A description of the update process can be found

in the file “a:\read.me”. If you have not already

reviewed this file, you should consider doing so

before proceeding.

Continue (y/n)?

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2.

If you answer the prompt with an

N

you return to the DOS prompt. If

you answer with a

Y

, this screen appears:

2Mb bytes of disk space are needed.
Drive d: has 2736128 bytes available.

This is enough to continue...

The system will now be copied from drive a: to

the scratch directory d:\$update$.

You will periodically be requested to change
floppy disks as the entire set is copied to

the hard disk

Strike any key when ready....

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