Hi John, the SPARK FUN part can definitely detect the status of the SRQ line and perform a serial poll to read the status bytes of attached devices. That were two of the major reasons why i preferred them against other cheaper circuits.
Regards Ulrich Bangert > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von John Ackermann N8UR > Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. Juli 2006 13:56 > An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Low Cost GP-IB PCI card? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 07/08/2006 11:58 PM: > > > > > >>I found that USB-GPIB controller. Looks like BSD and Linux are > >>supported. > > > > > >> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=549 > > > > > > Hi, I bought one on Ebay, they work quite well. They used > to be $99 > > at > > Sparkfun, now they raised the price, and it is out of stock... > > Have you tried using SRQ or other features than simple > read/wait/write sequences with it? I found with one of the > old RS-232-to-GPIB converters that anything beyond reads and > writes was hard to handle. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > time-nuts@febo.com > https://www.febo.com/cgi-> bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts