ANN-PT (Announcement Port)
Issue 5 October 2002
721
555-233-119
Notes:
a. The Announcement circuit pack can exhibit a condition that does not allow
recording.
If the circuit pack gets locked into this state (this is an extremely rare
condition), two of the Announcement Ports on the circuit pack (one of
which is the record port) will be unusable by software. Also, save/restore
announcements will not work, since the record port looks busy to the
circuit pack. Note that software does not have any way of knowing this and
attempts to use the ports.
If the circuit pack is locked into this state, the following symptoms are
observed:
1. When attempting to record an announcement, users hear the proper
record tone, but the announcement does not record (they do not
know it until the announcement is played back).
2. Performing a test board long when the circuit pack is in this state
yields the following abort codes:
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Ports 1 and 9 abort Test #206 with code 1024
■
Ports 1 and 9 abort Test #205 with code 2000
■
Board level Tests #209 and #210 abort with code 1024
3. The save/restore announcements command times out with:
Error encountered, can’t complete request
The Announcement circuit pack lock-up can be cleared remotely by
performing a soft reset to the circuit pack:
■
busyout board PCSS (this command drops all calls in progress on
the Announcement circuit pack)
■
reset circuit pack using the reset board PCSS command
■
release circuit pack using the release board PCSS command
140AY Channel Sanity Inquiry Test (#222)
The Angel keeps a sanity status bit for each of the 16 channels on the 140AY
device. This test queries the Angel to determine the status for a particular
channel. If a channel is insane, that implies that announcements cannot be played
back on that channel.