Re: Problems with a Perle 494 Controller...

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evan,

It is looking to be a diskette or diskette drive problem... I wish you could 
just
stick a little hardrive in these things :-)

They are trying to find a backup diskette... If nothing else, I can walk them
through the "making" of a new one IF the diskette drive is not the problem !

Thanks,

Chuck

Evan Harris wrote:

> Chuck
>
> Do they have a back-up configuration diskette ? Get them to try that - but
> make a copy of it before hand....
>
> If you have a hunt through the manual (as I recall Perle used to shove a
> little handbook one in a slot on the front of the controller) you may be
> able to locate the numbers below in the diagnostics section. The other
> Perle manuals (i think there are ususally about 4) may also provide some
> info on the diagnostics.
>
> I've seen that 00124 number before, but can't remember what it means.
>
> One thing I did see on a Perle was where there was a weird kind of internal
> wiring system and if one of the devices wasn't terminated correctly then
> the controller wouldn't work.... go figure :)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Evan Harris
>
> >Got a "strange" one. We have a Perle 494 Control Unit with the Ethernet
> >card in it running TCP/IP over frame back to our AS/400 (using this at 8
> >remote locations). Was working FINE until about 2 hours ago. It has a
> >error message of
> >351 ||  00124.
> >
> >They have tried rebooting the thing multiple times. It reads the
> >diskette and then does it's usual fumbling around and eventually
> >displays this message.
> >
> >I can ping the router fine (Cisco).
> >I can ping a UPS fine (APC UPS with SNMP Web card in it - really slick
> >!)
> >I have one PC that is attached via TCP/IP and IT is fine (running
> >Synapse software).
> >
> >I've got a message into Perle but have been waiting for SOME time now.
>
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