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Measurement Computing Personal488 rev.3.0 For DOS & Windows 3.Xi User Manual

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IV. TROUBLESHOOTING

19. Error Messages

Personal488 User’s Manual, Rev. 3.0

IV-363

23

ONLY AVAILABLE TO SYSTEM

CONTROLLER

Driver488 could not execute a command

because it was not the System
Controller.

24

RESPONSE MUST BE 0 THROUGH 15

The RESPONSE parameter of the PPOLL

CONFIG command must be within the
range of 0 to 15.

25

NOT A PERIPHERAL

The REQUEST command is only valid

when Driver488 is in the Peripheral
(*CA) mode.

26

SYSTEM ERROR - TIMER INTS ALREADY

ON

Internal system error. Report to factory.

27

SYSTEM ERROR - INVALID TIMER INIT

Internal system error. Report to factory.

28

SYSTEM ERROR - TIMER INTS ALREADY

OFF

Internal system error. Report to factory.

29

ADDRESS REQUIRED

PASS CONTROL requires an address.

30

TIME OUT VALUE MUST BE FROM 0 TO

65535

The TIME OUT period must be within the

specified range.

31

MUST BE ADDRESSED TO TALK

DATA or EOI SEND subcommands are

invalid unless Driver488 is already
addressed to talk by MTA.

32

VALUE MUST BE BETWEEN 0 AND 255

Data bytes specified numerically in the

SEND command must be 8-bit integers.

33

INVALID BASE ADDRESS

I/O port base addresses must end in 0, 1, or

8 when expressed in hexadecimal.

34

INVALID BUS ADDRESS

IEEE 488 bus addresses must be in the

range of 0 to 30.

35

BAD DMA CHAN NO. OR DMA NOT

ENABLED

This error message is obsolete in Driver488

Rev.4.0.

36

NOT AVAILABLE TO A PERIPHERAL

In Peripheral mode Driver488 cannot send

bus commands such as device
addresses.

37

INVALID PRIMARY ADDRESS

IEEE 488 bus addresses must be in the

range of 0 to 30.

38

INVALID SECONDARY ADDRESS

IEEE 488 bus secondary addresses must be

in the range of 0 to 31.

39

INVALID - TRANSFER OF ZERO BYTES

A #count of zero bytes is not valid.

40

NOT ADDRESSED TO LISTEN

In Controller mode, ENTER without

specifying a bus address is not valid
unless Driver488 is already addressed
to listen.

41

COMMAND SYNTAX ERROR

Error in specifying command.

42

UNABLE TO CHANGE MODE AFTER

BOOTUP

This error message is obsolete in Driver488

Rev.4.0.

43

TIME OUT WAITING FOR ATTENTION

As a Peripheral, executing an ENTER

command, Attention did not become
unasserted within the TIME OUT
period.

44

DEMO VERSION - CAPABILITY

EXHAUSTED

The DEMO version of Driver488 is limited

to 100 commands per session.

45

DEMO VERSION - ONLY ONE ADDRESS

The DEMO version of Driver488 can

control only one instrument at one IEEE
488 bus address.

46

OPTION NOT AVAILABLE

This error message is obsolete in Driver488

Rev.4.0.