SATA issue with GPIB

[egavin]

I�ve having a strange problem with one PC and our software, which is written in C++/MFC and is calling the NI libraries. The PC is a Dell GX 270, which is the same as what we sell and test our software against. The difference seems to be this workstation has an SATA hard-drive. I�ve swapped component by component between a working version and this one, and it seems to be the difference. The symptom is that our software hangs during initialization in the National Instrument GPIB driver when we call ibln.
Has this issue been seen by others?

[JohnM 64]

Hi egavin,

This is an interesting issue, because I do not see any way that an SATA hard drive could cause the program to hang. If you are using the same computer and program, and simply switching hard drives, and seeing the program hang, then perhaps the hard drive is corrupted somehow. Do you have another SATA hard drive to try?

Another thing to try is to create a program that does some simple GPIB communication calling the NI driver. This will help isolate the issue from the rest of the software. If the issue still occurs with this simple program and with two different SATA hard drives, then we will need to look deeper into this issue.

-John M