STS error 10, illegal command or format

[Carl_Finley]

I have both Lookout 5.0 and 5.1 on my machine. In Lookout 5.0, the AB SLC500 driver had an ethernet option, there were problems encountered when talking to a PLC network and therefore this option no longer exists in Lookout 5.1. Well, the driver worked fine for me since I was only talking to a single PLC so I used it. Since then, I have installed 5.1. Now I have a similar project and want to use 5.0 and the AB SLC500 driver so I can use ethernet, however, this driver no longer works on my machine. Did installing 5.1 on my machine overwrite something associated with 5.0 that no longer allows this to work? I have also tried the AB PLC5 driver both in 5.0 and 5.1 with the same results. The alarm window shows "STS error 10, illegal command
or format"

[John Dunlop]

Hi,

It looks like in 5.1 they have removed the Ethernet option. But if you copy a SLC500 driver object from an older version it works fine.

I dont know what issues NI found to cause them to remove it. We have used it to talk to approx 30 SLC505 PLCs for years with no problems.

regards,

John

[Carl_Finley]

I can't get the driver to work at all. Like I said, I have Lookout 5.0 and 5.1 on my development PC. I have used this driver successfully before, but it just won't work now. If I create a brand new process and assign a single alias, it works fine. As soon as I assign a second alias the red-Xs of death rear their head. I am getting the same results in both 5.0 and 5.1, with both the SLC500 driver and the PLC5 driver.