On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:12:41 -0800 (PST), Dennis Knutson
wrote:
>I'm a liitle confused. Do you get the error in LabVIEW or in MAX? The
>driver is for LabVIEW to communicate to the instrument. LabVIEW uses
>the GPIB card configured in MAX to talk to the instrument via the VISA
>api or direct GPIB calls. If the card is correctly configued in MAX,
>you should be able to open Devices and Interfaces, right click on the
>GPIB card and select Scan for Instruments. Any instrument found, you
>should be able to use MAX to read and write to. Also, what version of
>MAX and NI.488.2 are you using? MAX 2.1 and NI.488.2 doesn't list the
>GPIB-PCII card as supported. If you're using an older version, you
>might be having a compata
bility problem with either VISA or GPIB
>driver and Win/ME. What did you use to successfully communicate with
>the one instrument?
ok, from the top:
I have LabView 6.0 installed, running MAX 2.0.3.6 and NI-488.2 driver
1.60 on Windows ME.
I installed the GPIB-PCII and windows installed it at a certain IO
adress. I set the jumpers for this IO and when I then scanned for the
instrument I found 'something that I could communicate with.'
I figured the GPIB should use IRQ and DMA so I reinstalled the card
until MAX were satisfied with it using DMA and IRQ.
I then created a ke617 folder under instr.lib and put the ke617.lib
and dir.mnu files there.
now, in MAX, i cannot find an instrument when I scan for it, and the
'unknown VISA resource' pops up.
I'll try to upgrade max and the NI-488-2 driver and se what happens.
Thor A