Manual

Operating Characteristics 3-41
3.10 Error Messages
The GES-1993 provides standard Stream 9 messages to report SECS-I errors. See
5.7 SECS Error Messages on page 5-19 for detailed description of these messages:
S9F1 Unrecognized Device ID
S9F3 Unrecognized Stream
S9F5 Unrecognized Function
S9F7 Invalid Data
S9F9 Transaction Timeout
S9F11 Data Too Long
GWGEM together with GW SDR perform error handling.
FmNT can reject a Primary Message received from the Host as incorrectly formatted
for SECS-II (invalid data, or data too long); see [RefGWGEMUser] p 150 ‘S9F7 and
S9F11’.
3.11 Clock
The GES-1993 contains Clock/Calendar hardware, by which it knows the current
date and time.
The Host can send S2F31 to set the Equipment's Clock/Calendar hardware.
The Host can send S2F17 to read the Equipment's Clock/Calendar hardware.
The Operator can initiate a Date/Time request from the Host. This is done through
the GEM property page dialog (control page). The Equipment will send S2F17 to
the Host and will set its clock according to the data in the S2F18 reply.