SunOS 5.9 GPIB-SCSI-A driver loading issue

[skatea]

I am running SunOS 5.9 on a Sun Blade 150 with a NI SCSI GPIB Controller (it is the external box style).

Often when I run "init 6" the device driver banner does not appear during bootup. 

(The driver installed on the system is NI-488.2 GPIB Device Driver, Version 2.3.)

When this occurs the solution is usually to cycle the power on the GPIB controller box and run "init 6" again.

Do you know what causes the driver to sometimes not load during bootup?

If I can't prevent this problem from happening, than maybe I can find a quicker way to resolve it when it does happen...

Is there an ibic command you recommend (maybe ResetSys) that can reload the GPIB driver without rebooting the workstation?

Is there any way via software to cycle the GPIB power?

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

Scott

P.S. (I Accidentally posted this on the LabView board the 1st time...sorry)

[Krista H]

Hi,

When you the driver banner does not load on the system, what state is  the driver currently in. Could you use devfsadm to try to run commands for the driver and see if that works? You should also try uising the configuration utility for the GPIB on Solaris; ibcomf. In this case if there is a failure then the beest option would be a reboot. I am not sure that there is a software way to reboot they system. Please let me know how these test work out.