Allen-Bradley PLC-5 User Manual page 80

6-8 Communicating with Remote I/O
In this Field Define
Diagnostic file The file containing the channel's status
information:
Baud rate The communication rate for the remote
I/O scanner mode link
Publication 1785-UM012D-EN-P - July 2005
ATTENTION
messages received
messages sent
messages received with error
unable to receive
sent with error
rack retries
IMPORTANT
Assign a unique diagnostic file to each channel. Do not
assign a diagnostic file that is the I/O status file you
assigned or any other used integer file. Unpredictable
machine damage can result.
By Doing the Following
Cursor to the field, type an integer file number (9-999)
Cursor to the field and select the desired rate.Available rates are:
57.6, 115.2, and 230.4 kbps.
You must define a diagnostics file for a channel configured
for anything but unused (even if you are not using the
channel) if you want to get status information for that
channel.