Advice on operation: CU-950/CU-960

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This section describes the following CU-950/CU-960 scenarios:

  • Data recovery OFF at connection loss

  • End is reached during connection loss

  • CU-950/CU-960 USB cable is unplugged

  • The PC hard drive crashes during a run

Data Recovery OFF at connection loss

Scenario

Solution

The connection between the PC and CU-950/CU-960 is temporarily lost during a method run. When the connection is reestablished, incorrect time and volume is shown.

Note: Either CU-950/CU-960 USB is used or CU-950/CU-960 Advanced with Data Recovery set to OFF.

To be able to maintain correct time and volume after connection loss the CU-950/CU-960 Advanced must be used with Data Recovery set to ON

End is reached during connection loss

Scenario

Consequence

End of run is reached either

  • during connection loss

    or

  • during data upload after connection loss.

The time stamp indicating the time of day (not the method time) will indicate the time when the message reached the PC.

CU-950/CU-960 USB cable is unplugged

The table below describes a CU-950/CU-960 USB scenario.

Scenario

Solution

A CU-950/CU-960 USB is connected to the PC and the USB cable gets unplugged for some reason

Systems operating Windows 2000:

  • Replug the cable into the PC.

  • Restart the PC and CU-950/CU-960.

Systems operating Windows XP:

  • Replug the cable into the PC.

The PC hard drive crashes during a run

The table below describes a CU-950/CU-960 Advanced scenario.

Scenario

Solution

  • The unlikely event that the hard drive crashes unrecoverably during a run.

  • The CU-950/CU-960 Advanced is used, which stores the run data on its memory card.

In order to retrieve the data from the CU-950/CU-960 Advanced you need to

  • recover the backup files from the damaged hard drive if it is possible and move them to another PC

  • move the CU-950/CU-960 to the other PC and restart the PC.

2005-06-15