The 8255 chip is a static (unstrobed) digital I/O chip. Therefore, none of the buffered or pattern NI-DAQ functions or ComponentWorks controls will work a 8255-based device such as the 6025E. The errors you are getting are likely, "the device does not support the requested action" type errors. In software, you will be able to do is immediate i/o - that is read or write ports immediately with a software command.
For continuous buffered digital I/O, I would suggest looking into the 6533 or 6534 family of digital I/O devices.
Greg