How to get a DAQ Card, which isn't from NI, working?

[FReich]

Hello Everyone,

our department has a lot of DAQP-16 cards from Quatech. We normally use them with NextView.

Now I try to get some aceptance for LabView. It would be easier for me if we could continue to use our "old" PCMCIA cards.

The Problem is, that I dont have a clue how to get them working with LabView.

Any help greatly appreciated.


Yours

Franziskus Reich

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Yes, these cards appear to be quite old. Quatech offers DAQDRIVE drivers for all their products, see this page

http://www.engberg.dk/Backq/software/lvd.htm

Hopefully you are still working with LabVIEW 4 under Windows 3.1

Maybe they have updated drivers, I see Quatech was bought by Superlogics, probably best for you to contact them directly to see what support they have for LabVIEW.

http://www.quatech.com/products/daq.php

[FReich]

Thank you,

I am working with LabView 8.20 and Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

You are right I have found some support for LabVIEW 4 und 5.........but not for new LabVIEW Versions. ;(

Is there an possibility to use this DAQ cards even if the Measurement and & Automation Explorer cannot find them?

Yours

Franziskus Reich

[Henrik_Volkers]

Max will not find them...

However, most external driver for LabVIEW work by calling some driver dlls, and in some cases the manufactor even provide a wrapper dll for better use in LV.

If you look into the LV 5 driver vis you might find dll calls (Needs LV5 or 6 ). To use them in LV8... you might need to rewrite these dll calls if the update from 5.0 -> 6 ->7 ->8 will not work or is not possible.

Look into the LV-Help 'Using external code in LabVIEW' (or so) found in the Docs or right here http://digital.ni.com/manuals.nsf/websearch/8D930295FFBF9F7686256D2C00624728