rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) (02/01/91)
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Does anyone have a GPIB device driver for IRIX (on a 4D/60T)?
Specifically we have a HP 9-track HPIB tape drive which we would like
to use to load GIS map data. It would be nice if we could use this
drive without having to set up our old HP1000 system.
I might be able to write a driver if I can find suitible documentation
or example source code.
Thanks for any info,
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`-----'olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (02/02/91)
In <1991Feb01.045229.5835@eecs.wsu.edu> rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) writes: | ------- | | Does anyone have a GPIB device driver for IRIX (on a 4D/60T)? | | Specifically we have a HP 9-track HPIB tape drive which we would like | to use to load GIS map data. It would be nice if we could use this | drive without having to set up our old HP1000 system. | | I might be able to write a driver if I can find suitible documentation | or example source code. | SGI sells a GPIB board made by National Instruments (GPIB - 1014), and a driver to go with it. The driver is a generic gpib driver, and part of the product is an interface library. It should be fairly straightforward to write a program that accesses the tape drive with this approach (I would suspect a few days should be enough for basic functionality). Of course, this may not be the cheapest possible solution :) National is also selling a SCSI to GPIB interface box, and we have Geometry Partners who have used the generic scsi driver (ds) to talk to GPIB devices such as scanners with it. I have no idea what performace or price is like, or how hard it is to program it. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
uh311ae@sunmanager.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges) (02/04/91)
Try a program called mimps (Molecular image processing system) written by Steve Lamont (88, Stanford University). It was designed to interface with scanning tunnel microscopes via a GPIB bus. It drives a national instruments board (or any) via the SGI GPIB lib. It might be very helpful to look at this code. If you can't locate the program, give me a note and I will try to send you some of the stuff (which is a little of an effort because it is hidden on old tapes). Cheers ! rick@vee.lrz-muenchen.de