Need Help!- Alarm 963-Unable to FNC from this device

[JSlack]

Trying to use a USB thumb drive to transfer program from PC to machine. Insert thumb drive, machine can see program list on thumb drive, but when I hit SEL PROG, Alarm 963 pops up.

963-unable to FNC from this device. This device may not function from FNC. Change setting 134 the connection-type to an appropriate FNC device and try again. Check the operators manual for devices that are capable of FNC.

setting 134 takes me to the ADV TCP page, where it lists the USB as being "ON".

I have read that some USB drives have compatability trouble. I have tried two different drives, 1 a 4gb, another a 128mb. two different brands.

what else do I need to do to make this work?

[KenFoulks]

Instead of using SEL PROG, use F2. This will open a copy menu. Then select memory and it will be copied into memory.

[Delw]

I use select program, then hit cancel, switch to the usb side with arrow key scroll to program hit write then F2 and it pops the program over to the machine side.


I have found that with bigger USB's you generally do'tn get errors what you get is a cant find usb ONLY if the usb has over like 2.5 gigs on it.
It searchs for it but just cant find the USB. I use 4 and 6 gig all the time. just have them with little info on them.

[JSlack]

Hey guys, make sense! thank you.

I guess I was under the impression that you could "trickle" the program off the USB, or in laymans terms, run the program off the USB stick.

but instead, you just have to transfer from the USB to the hard drive.

Thanks a bunch! this will come in handy when our company network is down.

[Matt@RFR]

Originally Posted by JSlack I guess I was under the impression that you could "trickle" the program off the USB, or in laymans terms, run the program off the USB stick.

You can, I do it all the time. It just seems like you need to keep trying different brand thumb drives. What year is your machine? I wonder if a software upgrade might be usefull?

[Delw]

Originally Posted by JSlack Hey guys, make sense! thank you. I guess I was under the impression that you could "trickle" the program off the USB, or in laymans terms, run the program off the USB stick. but instead, you just have to transfer from the USB to the hard drive. Thanks a bunch! this will come in handy when our company network is down.

Originally Posted by Matt@RFR You can, I do it all the time. It just seems like you need to keep trying different brand thumb drives. What year is your machine? I wonder if a software upgrade might be usefull?

You can just like matt said below. I used to do that but it was a pain in the but to edit the programs ( I didnt know how) so I just transfered them to the pc side.

[JSlack]

the machine is an 07 VM6.

now that I know I can copy the file from the usb to the hard drive, I am good to go for the future.

can you edit a program from the hard drive? I have tried before, and have never been able to. in order to edit, I have to copy the program from the hard drive to the machine memory.

most of our files are big mold files, which are way easier to make a change at the PC than at the machine. however, once in a while we do get to run some production in this machine, and it would be nice to edit from the hard drive.

[KenFoulks]

Newer Haas controls have the ability to edit a program on the hard drive. Your 2007 VM-6 would have to copy the program to memory first.

[JSlack]

Thanks for that info Ken!

guess we need to buy some new machines then! haha