scsi

[johncahill]

Hi I'd like to send some simple commands to a device connected to an adaptec AIC 7850 SCSI card using labview. I don't have a large sum of money to spend on third party products such as those from "icon". Is there any "native solution", possibly using hacks of windows dll's ?

Thanks,
JC

[Steven Bird]

John, obviously NI can supply scsi interface cards but at a cost the ni 8214. This includes the windows driver. If you can obtain a driver then you can call dlls from labview.

I have no previous experience in this and I have looked at the discussions forums and also NI's resources to find nothing of any help on this particular subject. So sorry to be the bringer of bad news.

[Photoniz]

Is it not possible to connect the SCSI card manually to Labview?

[hoffiz]

Hi Photoniz,

There is not documentation on ours discussion forum neither are knowledgebase database. The thing with your request is that you are trying to control a third party device My suggestion and what I would try if I were you, is to communicate with the device through a different programming language, something more low level, (like C), trough the “dll”. Remember that since is a third party pci-scsi card you will have to call de manufacture of the card to help you with this task. After been able to communicate with the SCSI card in C, I would use the same scheme from LabVIEW, since you are able to call the dlls from LabVIEW using “Function Library Node”.

Some resources that might help you are: What is the best way to pass commands to a SCSI tape drive,

I hope it helps