How to troubleshoot VISA error code -1073807360

[Avalanchis]

I'm seeing periodic Visa exceptions in my application in response to a SerialSession.Write call.

Sometimes retrying the call succeeds, but other times it fails after retrying up to 5 times. 

I would like to know how I should go about troubleshooting the cause of this exception.

This is the call stack and exception error code:

11/12/2008 8:18:37 AM Unknown system error (miscellaneous error). VISA error code -1073807360 (0xBFFF0000), ErrorSystemError

at NationalInstruments.VisaNS.Internal.ErrorChecker.CheckStatusAndThrow(Int32 status, VisaHandle visaObject)

at NationalInstruments.VisaNS.Session.CheckStatusAndThrow(Int32 status, Boolean setLastStatus)

at NationalInstruments.VisaNS.Session.CheckStatusAndThrow(Int32 status)

at NationalInstruments.VisaNS.Internal.MessageBasedSessionImpl.Write(Byte[] data)

at NationalInstruments.VisaNS.MessageBasedSession.Write(Byte[] data)

Thanks!

Alan

[Caleb_W]

Hi Alan,

What serial device are you using?  Many times these errors are reported from the driver or the device.  Try putting a wait before writing to change the timing of the program.  Many times putting a delay will prevent this type of error.