DAQboard 6024E

[kdeclercq]

The DAQboard 6024E does not show up in MAX.

I used a PCI bus-to-bus bridge to plug the PCMCIA card in the PCIe bus of my Dell laptop running Windows Vista.  I installed DAQmx 9.0, which is listed to support the DAQ card 6024E. The bus-to-bus adaptor is visible in the Device Manager, but the DAQ board is not.

Any idea what can be wrong?

Kristien

[rsw]

Hi Kristien,

You're correct at the software level the installed driver versions support the device, could you let me know which PCI bus-to-bus bridge you're using, and also is it PCMCIA or Express? (You mentioned PCI and PCIe).

Kind Regards, 

[kdeclercq]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for having a look at it. I am using a Cardbus to Expresscard adaptor (Startech CB2EC)  to fit the DAQcard (PCMCIA) in my laptop which has a PCI Express slot. Does that clarify what you need to know?

Kristien

[rsw]

Hi Kristien,

Thanks for sending those details through, that all looks fine in terms of hardware connectivity (although we don't test our devices against such adapters). Do you have a machine where you could test the PCMCIA DAQ card directly to ensure the card itself works fine?

Kind Regards, 

[kdeclercq]

Hi Rob,

I don't have a computer with PCMCIA slot to test the card on without the adaptor. The card is new though (bought a few years ago but never used before).

[rsw]

Hi Kristien,

I've done a check internally and we don't have a list of supported bus-to-bus bridges so as you have the correct drivers installed there is only really 2 reasons why this is failing to work. a) the hardware has a fault or b) the device is not compatible with the bus-to-bus bridge that you're using and therefore DAQmx is unable to install the driver though the driver layer of your bus-to-bus bridge.

Kind Regards, 

[kdeclercq]

Hi Rob,

It was hard to find a laptop with a PCMCIA slot, but finally I could borrow one. The DAQcard works fine, so hardware failure is excluded. The adaptor works fine with other applications, so this should be a compatibility problem indeed. Do you have any idea for an alternative connection so that I would be able to use the DAQcard on my own laptop with the PCIe slot?

Thanks for your help!

Kristien