[time-nuts] Low Cost GP-IB PCI card?

Ulrich Bangert df6jb at ulrich-bangert.de
Sun Jul 9 09:58:57 EDT 2006


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: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] 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?
> 
> 
> SAIDJACK at aol.com 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
> 
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