Siemens PGC 302 Edition II - The Software; Installation of Software; Problems and Errors

THE SOFTWARE
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BIOS
(basic input output system) . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Specific software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Software in the chromatograph
BIOS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Control software, interface drivers . . . . . . . . . . 3
Software in the control unit
Installation program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Control software, interface drivers . . . . . . . . . . 3
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Screen operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Supplementary software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Software in the server
Server software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Interface drivers for coupling modules . . . . . . . . 4
Software in the control system
. . . . . 4
THE
IBM
-COMPATIBLE PC
What happens when switching on . . . . . . . . . . 6
The MS-DOS operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The CONFIG.SYS file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The AUTOEXEC.BAT file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Working with subdirectories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The directories
on the control unit
BEDI directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
KONFIG directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
METH directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PGCARCH directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
PCPU-2 directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
The directories on the server
SERV directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SERV\DF32 directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SERV\DF32\SSnn directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
PCBEDI directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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INSTALLATION OF SOFTWARE
Generation of backup copies . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Latest information on software . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installation of operating
software and configuration
. . . . . . . 11
Parameterization of control unit . . . . . . . . . 11
Transmission rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Number of chromatographs in ChromLAN . . . . 11
Use of printer on control unit
for results and alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Synchronization of date and time . . . . . . . . . . 11
Parameterization of number of
reports/chromatograms on the control unit . . . . . 11
Optimizing memory in the control unit . . . . . 12
Checking the memory assignments . . . . . . . . . 12
The various types of memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Optimization of hard disk in the control unit . . . 13
Installation of control software
. . . . 14
Installation of server software
. . . . 15
STARTING THE SOFTWARE
Starting the operating software or GCLAN . . . . 16
Calling the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Starting the server software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A useful batch file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
BEDI and Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
PROBLEMS AND ERRORS
Faulty communication
with the chromatograph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Testing the PCPU-2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
NETWORKING
People use a telephone! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chromatographs use interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . 20
How are characters transmitted? . . . . . . . . . . 21
Parallel interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Various serial interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Various components for networking . . . . . . . . 23
Examples of networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
MODBUS coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TELEPERM coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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2INHALT.CHP, Stand Dezember 22, 1999
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