Having problems with the HP3561A communicating with Labview 8.2.1

[argonst]

I am not sure if many people have had this problem or not, but as an overview I am just trying to communicate between Labview 8.2.1 and my HP3561a Dynamic Signal Analyzer. I have installed the instrument driver and tried to run it's VI's with no success. I do know that labview can read that the DSA is there based on the VISA Resource Name function that calls for the GPIB address. Right now i am using just a straight USB-GPIB NI cable sent directly between my computer and the instrument. My question is has anyone else had this problem before and if so what did they do to fix it?
Jason

[Dennis_Knutson]

What exactly is the nature of the problem? If you get an error, what is the error code? I'm a lttel confused about your statement regarding the VISA Resource Name. The driver I just downloaded does not use VISA and in fact, the address of the instrument is hard coded in the program. If you ahve a driver that uses VISA, where did you get it from?

[argonst]

What exactly is the nature of the problem? If you get an error, what is the error code? I'm a lttel confused about your statement regarding the VISA Resource Name. The driver I just downloaded does not use VISA and in fact, the address of the instrument is hard coded in the program. If you ahve a driver that uses VISA, where did you get it from?

Thanks for the replay and the nature of the problem is the instrument doesn't communicate at all with Labview. I am sorry if I confused you with the VISA Resource name, but that was a general test to check to see if labview knows it can communicate with the DSA. The driver that you downloaded and installed is probably the same one thave I downloaded as well and there isn't one that has a VISA in it. Did you get the driver to work with the instrument for you? If so what did you do to get this to work?

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't have the instrument and the test you performed really doesn't help much since the driver uses the low level GPIB functions. Make sure to edit the HP 3561A and HP2561A.read VIs and change the address that is in there to match what your instrument's actually is. It's hard coded for address 11. You also want to make sure that the automatic error handling is turned on. There is none in the driver VIs.

That being said, the driver is old and unsupported. You might want to redo it or use the Instrument I/O Assistant.