Find Devices tab

Use this tab to determine the channel addresses of the devices attached to the CHANNEL adapter. You can access this tab from the BARR/CHANNEL-OUT utility.

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Find Devices Tab

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Adapter

Lists all of the installed CHANNEL adapters.

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Devices

Lists the devices found.

Address

Displays the address of the channel device.

Type

Displays the device type, such as 3174 or 3211. Helps you determine which address corresponds to which attached device.

An Unable to Query message displays when the function is unable to communicate with the channel device. This occurs when another program has control of the device address. If you receive this message, exit all other programs that may be using the device driver, stop the Windows spooler service, try the find devices operation again, and restart the Windows spooler service.

Sense

If the utility cannot determine the address or type for a device, it reports a sense code that indicates the reason for the error. Refer to your channel device documentation to determine the meaning of the sense code.

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Status

Displays the status of the find devices operation. Ready indicates that it is okay to begin the find devices operation. While the utility searches for devices, it displays Looking for device. Usually these messages flash too quickly for you to read them. When the operation completes, it reports the total number of devices found. Click Cancel to stop the find devices operation.

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Find button

Begins the find devices operation after you have selected the adapter.

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Cancel button

Stops the find devices operation.

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