Hi Skip. Does the Austron even recognise the *IDN? query that Ni-Max uses to identify instruments? Information on those is "thin" on the web.
Is your ENET-GPIB able to work in analyser mode, so you can see exactly what's happening on the bus as the PC scans for devices? Check the cables. If I had a penny for every bus issue that was caused by a bad cable, I could have retired by now. Try running "NI I/O Trace" (what used to be known as NI-Spy) to see what's going on, or not. Often a good first hit tool to use. If not, can you beg-borrow or otherwise find for temporary use, a NI GPIB-USB-HS+ adapter? (The + versions have the analyser needed bus data latch enabled.) Some other makes of GPIB PC I/O card can sometimes be used as a capable bus protocol analyser, the early "BrainBoxes Professional 488" 8 bit ISA PC card in particular. (In reality, a generic parallel I/O chip, some glue logic and bus driver chips. Everything was done in software, under DOS! At the cost of a dedicated PC, it made in it's day, a capable bus analyser.) Have you tried to manually send (using the interactive comm's tool) a simple command or query to the Austron, and see (either) a GPIB system error message, or any response from the Austron. There is little on the 'web in the way of any manual I could find to read to see what might be needed. But it's worth remembering that these instruments are very early GPIB devices, so probably won't work without some effort on a bog-standard modern NI based system. Regards. Dave B G0WBX. On 07/04/2020 02:55, time-nuts-requ...@lists.febo.com wrote: > Hello time-nuts, > I have been trying to talk to the Austron 2110 via the GPIB with > absolutely no luck. The controller is a NI ENET-GPIB and it talks to > the 5370B just fine. When the find GPIB devices button is clicked the > Austron 2110 is nowhere to be found. > I actually have two of the 2110 units and they both behave the same > way. Yes, the GPIB chips are installed in both units and the IRQ > jumper is there. When the serial poll is done by the controller I can > see the DAV line wiggle in the 2110, but nothing else seems to happen > (no interrupt or acknowledge from the 68488). > > If anyone has any experience with these units and GPIB any help would > be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > Skip Withrow -- Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software: _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.