Didier Juges wrote: > Other than that, in my experience, NI products have been remarkably > compatible in the last 10 years, from a 30,000 feet level (plug pretty much > anything into anything and it will work with any NI software, even though > performance will vary and you may need new drivers). Exceptions are things > like the bus snooping mode (forgot the name) which is only supported on the > internal, bus type adapters (not USB unfortunately). >
I can give you another annoying exception. The PCI card NI makes will fit in a Sun SPARC (or UltraSPARC) based workstation, and works fine up to versions 9 of Solaris. Then, with version 10 of Solaris, there is a problem. The reason is that NI GPIB cards have always used the driver name "ib" on Solaris. Since the first release of Solaris 10, Sun decided to create a driver called "ib" for InfiniBand - obviously unaware National Instruments had been using that driver name. Hence if you try to install an NI GPIB card in a Sun running Solaris 10, you are likely to get a problem. If you don't need InfiniBand. support, then the solution is to remove the InfiniBand driver and any packages which depend on it, in the correct order, which the following line does. # pkgrm SUNWudapltr SUNWudapltu SUNWtavor SUNWrpcib SUNWipoib SUNWib I managed to get Sun talking to National Instruments about this, but I note in the latest release of Solaris 10, the "ib" driver is still present. I also note that NI have not produced a driver which they claim works in Solaris 10. There's more info in this thread, which I have just updated the first time in a couple of years, to reflect my understanding of it now. http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=140&thread.id=15109 BTW, National Instruments sbus cards (fit older Suns) are cheap on eBay and so are the old sbus based Suns. But NI want a small fortune for Solaris drivers (399 UK pounds, which is about 800 US Solaris). But a cheap SPARC 20, sbus card, drivers (if you have them lying around) and Solaris 9 makes a pretty cheap and reliable system for GPIB. A SPARCstation 20 is pretty compact and works fine without a keyboard or moitor (use serial line to set it up, then ethernet afterwards). _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.