Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Commissioning Manual page 856

Service and diagnostics
3.1 Creating a service system
Scope of delivery
To create a service system on a USB storage medium, the following files are included on
CD:
● an executable file installdisk.exe
● an image file for USB-FlashDrive
● a file with the latest information siemensd.txt / siemense.txt
Recommendation:
It is better to use SIMATIC PC USB-FlashDrive.
Note
To create the service system, you need administrator rights.
All data already on the USB storage medium will be deleted.
The transfer is optimized for USB 2.0; therefore, the transmission to the USB storage
medium takes longer when using USB 1.1 than USB 2.0
Proceed as follows
To create a service system on a USB storage medium:
1. Copy the service system onto a local hard disk of your PG/PC.
2. Connect the USB storage medium to the USB interface of the PG/PC.
3. Determine in Windows Explorer which drive letter the USB storage medium was
4. Open a DOS shell and change to the directory in which the files for the service system
5. In the DOS shell, enter the following command:
Result: The image is transferred to the USB storage medium.
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assigned, e.g. H:
are stored.
installdisk ––verbose ––blocksize 1m linuxbase.img h:
Commissioning Manual, 03/2013, 6FC5397-1DP40-3BA1
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