Creating Drive Connections; Setting Up Drives - Siemens SINUMERIK 840D sl Commissioning Manual

Creating drive connections

Set up connections
Up to eight connections to logical drives (data carriers) can be configured in HMI sl. These
drives can be accessed in the "Program manager" and "Startup" operating areas.
The following logical drives can be set up:
● USB interface
● CompactFlash card of the NCU. The dialog box is available as of protection level 3
● Network drives
Note
It is not possible to configure NCU or PCU interfaces.
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Setting up drives

You can define logical drives in the "Set Up Drives" window.
A user interface for the configuration is available in the "Startup" operating area. The
configuration data created from this is stored in the "logdrive.ini" file.
This file is located on the CompactFlash card in the User/sinumerik/hmi/cfg directory.
HMI sl (IM9)
Commissioning Manual, 01/2008, 6FC5397-1DP10-3BA0
(password: End user).
Software options
• You need the "Additional 256 MB HMI user memory on CF card of NCU"
option in order to be able to use the CompactFlash card as data carrier.
• To set up network drives, you need the "Network drive management" option.
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