how to enable MAX to detect 3rd party GPIB card

[yerfoeg]

We are having a hard time figuring out how MAX could detect a PCI-GPIB card from another vendor (TAMS). Please help

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Max was written only for NI hardware, I believe.

[LoganS]

A similar question was asked in the following Discussion Forum thread: How to configure 3rd Party GPIB Device and communicate Using VISA. On a high level, MAX was designed to support NI hardware, but there are a few exceptions, as mentioned in the above thread. If your device is not one of the specified cards, you can create a VISA driver and do RLP communication with your device, but this would not be trivial. What type of GPIB interface are you using? Who is the manufacturer?

Logan S.

[yerfoeg]

We are using TAMS (test and measurement system inc.) 60488 PCI GPIB card. We were able to find in their websitee a document on how we could configure MAX to communicate with this device. We were able to execute it yesterday and MAX now sees the gpib card and all the instruments it controls.

By the way, thanks for replying to my post.

[Makoto]

Several 3rd party GPIB vendors provide NI-488.2M compatible driver DLL (GPIB-32.DLL).  In this case, you can install NI's GPIB driver (NI-488.2M) and NI-VISA, then swap the installed GPIB-32.DLL with the 3rd party version. NI-MAX and NI-VISA will then work fine if the 3rd party GPIB-32.DLL has almost perfect compatibility.  However, I don't know if you have a valid user license for installing NI's NI-488.2M software package without buying true NI GPIB hardware. 

Try to ask the board vendor if they provide the NI-488.2M compatible DLL.