GE Fanuc Logicmaster 5 & 6

[brijacq]

Hi,

We are in the process of demolishing a couple of old GE Fanuc plc’s. We don’t have any method of reading the old dos logicmaster series 5 and 6 ladder programs.
Is there any way to convert them to a pdf so we can trace out the I/O connected to them? We don’t need to get online.

I have attempted to run the DOS software on various platforms.

It always gives me the message to run it on the DOS version supplied with the original disks (DOS 3.2)

I have managed to set a VM up running DOS 3.2 as the operating system, but i still get the same error message.

[brijacq]

The .LAD files are attached if anyone is kind enough to convert them for me.

AUX0398 is LM5 and the other is LM6

Thanks in advance

[Steve Bailey]

Here is the listing for the Series Six program. I no longer have LM5.

[brijacq]

Much appreciated Steve, as always an awesome community on this forum.

Are you running the LM6 in a VM with DOS 3.2 or actually on an old 386 PC?

[Steve Bailey]

I run LM6 under DOSBox. a "ver" command returns "DOSBox version 0.74-2. Reported DOS version 5.00"

[brijacq]

I get the following messages when trying to run it.

[Steve Bailey]

The first jpg indicates that LM6 can't find a path to the correct ANSI.sys file.

The following is from the README.LM6 file in my version of LM6.

Logicmaster 6 requires at a minimum the following commands in the
CONFIG.SYS file:

buffers=5
files=20
device=ansi.sys

Do you know what version of LM6 you are trying to run?

[brijacq]

The readme included with the software indicates that it is version 3.04

[EIM1]

Originally Posted by Steve Bailey

I run LM6 under DOSBox. a "ver" command returns "DOSBox version 0.74-2. Reported DOS version 5.00"

Could you please share with me how you did that? I've got a Series 6 Fanuc that has a Major CPU Fault and I don't have a Workmaster II anymore.

[Steve Bailey]

There aren't too many Series Sixes still in service. I sold my Workmaster II a couple of years ago to one of the last users in New England.

If you formerly used a Workmaster II with a parallel WSI card in it, be aware that you will need to have a CCM module in the Series Six for serial communications. You will also need the serial versin of LM6.
You will also need to run DOSBox on a 32-bit computer. I know the series 90 driver won't work on a 64-bit machine so I don't expect the Series Six driver will either.

[EIM1]

Originally Posted by Steve Bailey

There aren't too many Series Sixes still in service. I sold my Workmaster II a couple of years ago to one of the last users in New England.

If you formerly used a Workmaster II with a parallel WSI card in it, be aware that you will need to have a CCM module in the Series Six for serial communications. You will also need the serial versin of LM6.
You will also need to run DOSBox on a 32-bit computer. I know the series 90 driver won't work on a 64-bit machine so I don't expect the Series Six driver will either.

I think we used the serial version. Anyway I recently acquired the LM6 software from CIMTECH and manuals. I was trying to do the virtual machine on a 64 bit computer. So even if I have a DOS6.22 VM (Virtualbox) the driver won't work? I'm having trouble with all of the files showing up in my virtual floppy drive.
Thank you for your response. I'll try to get a 32 bit machine.

[Steve Bailey]

I may have misspoke. I run DOSBox on a 32-bit XP VMWare virtual machine running under 64-bit Windows 10.

[EIM1]

Originally Posted by Steve Bailey

I may have misspoke. I run DOSBox on a 32-bit XP VMWare virtual machine running under 64-bit Windows 10.

Steve, if I need to install a file onto the PLC how do I manage the files when Logicmaster is running on DOSBOX. Do I mount a second folder as D:\plc_files? Can you help with that?

[Steve Bailey]

Are you talking about the .LAD, .NAM, and .EXP files for your Logicmaster project? I would copy them all to the "LM6" directory.

[EIM1]

Originally Posted by Steve Bailey

I may have misspoke. I run DOSBox on a 32-bit XP VMWare virtual machine running under 64-bit Windows 10.

Hi Steve,

Is there a way to check comm signal from PC using LM6 software without connecting to the PLC? Just wondering if I can test the software and hardware functionality before traveling back and forth to the PLC for testing.