In article <39a39d83@newsgroups.ni.com>,
"Danny Thomson" wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have bought a IOTECH Personal488/CARD a PCMICA GPIB card and have
> managed to get it installed into a Laptop and running GPIB Write and
READ
> commands.
>
> However I cannot get it to use the VISA command it gives me an error
>
> IOtech GPIb-32.DLL Err
> Unimplemented function-ibdiag Please contact Factry.
>
> In answer to my question about this I have been told .....
>
> "IBDIAG is not supported, since the only function that this provides
is to
> report the hardware that is installed. In this case you are aware of
the
> IEEE card that is fitted, so it is not necessary. Unfortunately the
VISA
> commands tend to make extensive use
of this function, so I would
recommend
> using the low level GPIB commands."
>
> Has anyone else come across this problem and have any better
suggestions /
> alternatives
> to re-writting all my drivers that currently use VISA to using basic
GPIB
> reads and writes
>
> regards
>
> Danny Thomson
>
>
The GPIB-PCMCIA card from INES supports the VISA interface.
Please take a look under http://www.inesinc.com
regards,
Friedel Hacker
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