[time-nuts] Help for general GPIB problem

Azelio Boriani azelio.boriani at screen.it
Thu Jan 23 08:27:19 EST 2014


Try to stop the HPIB driver... maybe the driver is reporting as
available even if no hardware is actually connected.

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Ulrich Bangert
<df6jb at ulrich-bangert.de> wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> I am just going to improve my EZGPIB utility so that it can make use of more
> than one GPIB-interface (supported by GPIB32.Dll, not Prologix). I have been
> trying to enumerate all detected interfaces by using
>
> ibdev(bi,0,0,T300ms,0,1)
>
> in a loop where bi starts with "0" and is incremented by "1" until the
> result of the call gets negative. Much to my surprise this loop detects 4
> (!) interfaces GPIB0 to GPIB3 even if absolutely NO interface is connected
> to the pc.
>
> What am I doing wrong. Is "4" the maximum number of interfaces that may be
> handled by GPIB32.Dll ????
>
> What do I need to do to find the real number of detected interfaces ?????
>
> Best regards and TIA for your answers
>
> Ulrich Bangert
> www.ulrich-bangert.de
> Ortholzer Weg 1
> 27243 Gross Ippener
>
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