Ciprico Rimfire 3880 - Manual (Page 39)

User’s Guide 21020285 D
Chapter 2 Hardware Essentials
Status Port Page 2 - 15
Code - Board Type or Error Code - When the ERR bit is set to one, this
byte will contain a catastrophic error code. If the ERR bit is zero, the code byte
will contain the Ciprico board type.
02
⇒
Any Ciprico VME/SCSI product.
Other than 02
⇒
Catastrophic Error Code.
There are several catastrophic error codes:
To access the Status Port, use an offset of 10H from the base address of the
adapter (which is set by jumpers on the board).
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 12: Status Port Catastrophic Error Codes