Hi
I have installed a NI GPIB card and the 488.2 software to go with it.
I already
have a 96 way DAQ installed which works fine. The GPIB software has
been installed before the board and seems quite happy. The card is
recognised by the system and PCI-GPIB appears under the Devices and
interfaces in MAX, so the system recognises the fact that it has GPIB
hardware is installed.
I have gone through the start-up wizard and and have configured as as
PCI-GPIB and given it the number GPIB0, the DAQ is labelled as 1.
Trying to use Max to talk to the instrument and going through
interactive controls to try to establish comms using *IDN? gives the
same result. Whatever I do I get the dialogue box claiming that the
instrument has to be powered up or cables
checked. These are all
known to be ok. This is about as far as I can get. If I run the
trouble shooting wizard I get a failure on the "GPIB interfaces
sequentially verified" section although the GPIB0 is recognised.
Further investigation brings up the standard box that says unknown
hardware error and the list of suggestions.
The software has had the primary and secondary address set to 0 and
then set to the instrument address of 18. Still no joy.
Whatever I try, when I run scan for instruments, I get the same
dialogue box advising me to check the cables and power to the
instrument.
The instrument I am using is a Racal-Dana 2101 microwave counter
What am I doing wrong?
thanks
Steve Habberley
