Using Agilent 34970A in LabView yields error code -1073807343

[Andrew Tsai]

Trying to get the Agilent to successfully work on Labview. I've tried programming using the latest Labview (version 8.#) as well as on Labview version 6.1 -- both give me the same results. I'm suspecting this is a driver conflict, not Labview itself...perhaps something between VISA and HP's Agilent? My visa version is 4.5 which is up to date. The hardware works; I used the troubleshooting Wizard and it gave me a go.

LabView shows: 

'Error -1073807343 occurred at VISA Open in HP34970A Initialize.vi->Untitled 1

Possible reason(s):

VISA:  (Hex 0xBFFF0011) Insufficient location information or the device or resource is not present in the system. '

NI Spy shows:

> 3.  viOpen (0x00F01000, "GPIB0::9::INSTR", 0, 0, 0x00000000)

> Process ID: 0x00000208         Thread ID: 0x01197000

> Start Time: 14:43:25.586       Call Duration 00:00:00.008

> Status: 0xBFFF0011 (VI_ERROR_RSRC_NFOUND)

[Dennis_Knutson]

First, you posted to the wrong board. This board is for NI DAQ hardware. You should have used the Instrument Control board.

Second, what exactly do you mean by a conflict 'between VISA and HP's Agilent'? The company called Agilent used to be part of the compary called HP. I used a lot of 34960 and a few 34970 with never a problem. What type of connection are you using? If it's GPIB, are you using an NI GPIB controller? Is the instrument listed in MAX? What troubleshooting wizard for what hardware works?

[Andrew Tsai]

Sorry. I'm using a NI GPIB-USB-HS controller. Thanks for your time. What do you think is the problem?

NI-488.2 troubleshooting wizard

NI-488.2 Software Presence Verified

GPIB Hardware Presence Verified

GPIB Interfaces Sequentially Verified 

interface name  interface type status

GP1B0      GPIB-USB-HS      passed

[Andrew Tsai]

I'm also using Mac OS X 

[Dennis_Knutson]

Did you do a scan for instruments and does the instrument appear in MAX? If it doesn't, then it won't do  any good to try to run any LabVIEW code.

[Andrew Tsai]

It appears when running the Interactive Control on the Mac, i have 2 listeners @ address 0 and 9 but I'm not sure which instruments they are.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't really care about interactive control in MAX. It does not matter if that does or does not work there. You need to do a scan for instruments and the instrument has to show up there. You need to do this in order to populate the visaconf.ini file. the interactive control does not use VISA. The instrument driver does.

[Andrew Tsai]

Where can i do a scan for instruments?

Thanks 

[Andrew Tsai]

It's weird....my driver is up to date yet computer sees the connection as a PXI/PCI instead of a USB. It should be a USB right?