
DPU Bus Troubleshooting
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monitor with a low DPU Bus address, stallouts are usually recovered very
quickly.
Go-Ahead Pointers and Station Addresses
All stations participating in the token passing procedure have two registers
containing addresses (Go-Ahead Pointers) which are used to determine the
next station to which the token is passed. These addresses are identified as
the "next address" and the "permanent next address" and are shown on the
DPU Bus Map display, Figure 3-2. The "next address" is the address of the
next station with which this station has succeeded in establishing
communications. The "permanent next address" defaults to the address of
this station plus one. This is the address which this station tries every
sixteenth pass to insure that new or repaired stations added to the network
are included in the token rotation.
Note:
The default value of the "permanent next address" for station No. 31 is
No. 1 and the "permanent next address" for stations No. 47 and No. 63 is
RT, indicating a return to the high loop.
The "permanent next address" can be changed with the Initialize Go Ahead
Pointers (IGAP) command to optimize token rotation as described in the
IGAP procedure below.
In addition to these pointers, system monitors maintain other pointers to the
two low loops. These pointers represent the first active station and the first
station in each loop (corresponding to the "next address" and "permanent
next address" above).
IGAP and UGAP Procedures
A procedure known as IGAP (Initialize Go-Ahead Pointers) is used to
optimize the token rotation by creating a condition where there is never an
attempt to pass the token to an inactive station. When this procedure is
invoked, all possible stations are attempted in the token passing routine and
then the "permanent next address" is made equal to the "next address" so that
only the active stations are included in the token rotation. When a station
becomes inactive on a DPU Bus which is IGAP'd, the "next address" of the
next lower addressed station is modified to reflect the new rotation. Because
the "permanent next address" is unchanged, that station will still be
addressed every sixteenth token pass.
New stations can be added to an IGAP'd DPU Bus only by issuing another
IGAP command, since all stations are tried again, or by issuing a
UGAP
command. The
UGAP
command returns all stations to their original un-
IGAP'd default state.