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200 Sprint™ (2G)Automated Urine Microscopy Analyzer Service Manual 300-4949 Rev A 01/2005 5-14
5. Service Application Software
processed, this area is blank. The Service application updates this area
about once per second, so if messages are being processed quickly,
some messages might not show up in the current message status. That is
normal.
Tip: Under almost all circumstances the current message status can be
ignored! The only time it is important is if the Service application appears
to hang. In such cases, the exact text of the current message can help
engineering investigate the problem. You can try restarting the system to
see if the problem goes away.
Tip: Messages entered through the Terminal window don’t get displayed
in the current message status area.
Link Status
The link status area of the status bar shows the status of the
communications link to the analyzer control system. Here are the possible
statuses in chronological order:
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“Starting ASTM”
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“Establishing link (may take a minute)”
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“Could not establish link”
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“Connection established”
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“Sending initialization messages”
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“Sending initial query messages”
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“Sending query messages”
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“Idle”
“Starting ASTM”
During normal operation the analyzer control system communicates to the
PC using the ASTM E1381 protocol, which provides high robustness at
the cost of some sacrifice of bandwidth. The Service program must
initially link using this protocol, so it starts an ASTM session.
“Establishing link (may take a minute)”
After starting the ASTM protocol, the Service program verifies the ASTM
link. It then issues commands to the analyzer control system to switch the
communications protocol from ASTM to a more or less raw serial protocol
(gaining bandwidth at some sacrifice of robustness). Finally, it issues
commands to the analyzer control system to put it into service mode.
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