Secure Digital Card Formatting; Perform Firmware Updates - Allen-Bradley Logix 5000 Series Programming Manual

Store and Load a Project Using a Memory Card
Secure Digital Card
Formatting
If the revision of your
project is
≥ 18.0
Perform Firmware
Updates
If
You meet all of these conditions.
• The controller has a memory card.
• The project on the memory card has
a revision ≥ 12.0.
• The project on the memory card has
a Load Image option = On Power
Up or On Corrupt Memory.
• A controller in service has a
revision ≥ 12.0.
A Secure Digital (SD) memory card (catalog numbers 1784-SD1 (1 GB),
1784-SD2 (2 GB) that uses the FAT 16 file system does not have to be
formatted when storing a project to a controller.
Then
The SD card uses the FAT16 file system.
If the card:
Is unlocked.
Is locked.
The SD card using the FAT16 file system:
• Stores multiple projects and associated firmware.
• Overwrites the project on the card if it contains a project with the same name
• Loads the most recently stored project.
You also can use a card reader to read and manipulate the files on a memory card.
See "Use a Memory Card Reader
See "Store a Project
This table outlines the options and precautions for updating the firmware of a
controller that has a memory card.
Then
Update the firmware by using one of these options.
• Memory card
• Logix Designer application
• ControlFLASH™ software (See the Important: note on the next page)
Follow this procedure to update the firmware and load the project by using the
memory card.
1. Install the card in the controller.
2. If the Load Image option = On Corrupt Memory and the controller contains a
project, before powering down, disconnect the battery or disengage the Energy
Storage Module (ESM) from the controller.
3. Turn on or cycle power to the controller.
Follow this procedure if you use the Logix Designer application or ControlFLASH
software to update the firmware.
1. Remove the card from the controller. This prevents the controller from setting the
Load Image option of the memory card to User Initiated during the update.
2. After the firmware update is completed, store the project to the memory card.
This ensures that the revision of the project on the memory card matches the
revision of the controller.
Rockwell Automation Publication 1756-PM017H-EN-P - February 2018
Then the controller:
• Leaves existing data.
• Creates folders and files for the project and firmware.
• Does not allow writing to the card.
on page 29."
on page 18" for loading an SD card in the controller.
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