Control VXI Register Based Cards via GPIB-VXI/C in LabVIEW 2017

[slambert]

Let's assume for minute that LabVIEW 2017 does not support VXI via the GPIB-VXI/C slot zero controller.

What are my other options?  Does LabVIEW 2017 support the VXI-MXI-2 or VXI-PCIe-8362T cards?  Would either of these give me the functionality I used to have via the GPIB-VXI/C card?

Steve

[Princealimagicalhe]

So the issue isn't with specific models but more with GPIB VXI based systems. According to NI-VISA 17.0:

"NI-VISA 17.0 Dropped support for GPIB-VXI controllers."

So it seems as most GPIB-VXI Controllers would have issues.

[slambert]

Yes.  That's the reason I was trying to get LabVIEW 2017 to run with NI-VISA 16, since it still supported GPIB-VXI.

Since NI-VISA can't support GPIB-VXI cards, I've taken a new approach.  I'm coding out NI-VISA from my application.  I've gone back to using GPIB functions instead of VISA functions.  Apparently I can still talk to the VXI cards through the GPIB-VXI card using GPIB.

Makes you wonder why NI-VISA can't accomplish this?

Thanks for all your help.

Steve