Dear Customer,

The PODPAR diagnostic tool can be used to diagnostic fails when using the
PODPAR parallel to PODBUS converter. The tool will only work on plain DOS
or Windows95/98. It will not work on WindowsNT!

Start the tool (with the PODPAR device attached) and select LPTx by
pressing 1, 2 or 3. NOTE: The addresses are fixed assigned and the
LPTx names may be different from the windows assignment. The address
assignment is: LPT1 at 378, LPT2 at 278, LPT3 at 3bc.

Pressing the 'i' or 't' button will execute the PODPAR access test.
It should display "test passed." at the end.

Pressing 's' will select the first device (on a new PODPAR this is 
the PODPAR itself). The 'r' function will read the ID of the device.
On a PODPAR V.3 this is 55, an PODPAR V.2 it is 3c.


On a PODPAR V.3 interface the output of 't' should be:

address: 0378 (96f0) PODPAR SLOW V3

1,2,3   Select LPT 1,2,3
F,S,E,C Select Fast, Slow, EPP, ECP mode
i,t     Init/Test Interface
s,n     Select first device, next device
w/W/b   Write 100 byte / next 8 byte / block
r/R/B   Read 100 byte / next 8 byte / block
q       quit

:i
testing in mode BIDIR.
writing data: 7f : 7f
strobe and control: c5, 07
strobe and control: c4, 07
writing addr: 08 : 08
strobe and control: c6, 87
strobe and control: c4, 87
writing data: 7f : 7f
strobe and control: c5, 07
strobe and control: c4, 87
writing data: 00 : 00
strobe and control: c6, af
strobe and control: ce, af
strobe and control: c4, af
ID from device #0: 55
test passed.
init return code: 3


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