[comp.sys.hp] HP-IB Instruments and Discless nodes

burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) (11/15/89)

Thanks to all the people who responded to my plea for help
controlling HP-IB devices from a discless 330 node.  The
problem turned out to be one of labeling; HP doesn't.  My
340 and 370 both have slow-speed HP-IB as the built-in default
device, and you add the high-speed.  For some reason on the
330, FAST HP-IB is the default.  Since there were several other
calls with problems at the Response Center about HP-IB and
discless nodes, we never thought to check something so basic
as "it's not plugged in".  Sigh... By the way, it works fine
now, although we were warned about problems using DMA speeds, but 
s'orrite since we don't need to.  I would like to acknowledge
the help we got from the Response Center and the local SEs from
HP.  They stayed with us (one wandered over and noticed the problem)
and were very friendly.

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