Max GPIB Vs LabView GPIB

[t2dj]

Hi all, I'm working on a program to read and write to a piece of equipment using GPIB. 

At the moment NI Max does not pic up that the device is connected through GPIB but the labview program does. 

Origionally I thought that the computer was not regestering the GPIB PCI Card but when I went into device manager it showed that the computer was picking up on the card. 

Is there a reason or setting at to why max does not pick up the GPIB device and the labview program does?? 

The meter is GPIB0::11::INSTR

Please find images attached, and any advice would be helpful. 

Thank you. 

T.J. 

[JÞB]

MAX uses the low level functions from NI-488.  LabVIEW populates the IO control drop down from VISA calls.

That ADLINK device does not play nice with NI 488 although it's VISA implementation does follow VISA conventions.

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[t2dj]

Hi Jeff, thank you so much for replying. 

So what you are saying is its the actual PCI card itself? 

Thank you. 

T.J. 

[Dennis_Knutson]

Why would you expect an NI program (MAX) to be able to detect and configure a non-NI device. Since LabVIEW is using the VISA driver, you have no problem at all.

[高杰]

Try: MAX-> Tools -> NI VISA-> VISA Options, you'll see the configuration pannel, then General Settings -> pass-ports, you'll see a List of Pass-ports, make sure tick up all checkboxes. (GPIB Pass-port is un-checked defaultly.). Then save & exit, relaunch MAX, you might be able to see your third party GPIB card.

It works for Agilent any way.

Good luck.

O...Dear, why the word "pass-port" is not permitted!!!...