Installing Your GPIB Hardware and NI-488.2 for Solaris
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Installing the PXI-GPIB
Caution
Electrostatic discharge can damage several components on
your GPIB board. To avoid electrostatic damage when you handle the
module, touch the antistatic plastic package to a metal part of your
system chassis before you remove the board from the package.
Complete the following steps to install the PXI-GPIB.
1. Log on as superuser. To become a superuser, type
su root
and enter the root
password.
2. Shut down your system by typing the following commands at the command
line prompt:
sync;sync;shutdown
3. Power off your PXI or CompactPCI chassis after it has shut down. Keep the
chassis plugged in so that it remains grounded while you install the PXI-GPIB.
4. Choose an unused PXI or CompactPCI peripheral slot. For maximum
performance, the PXI-GPIB has an onboard DMA controller that can only
be used if the board is installed in a slot that supports bus master cards.
National Instruments recommends installing the PXI-GPIB in such a slot.
If you install the board in a non-bus master slot, you must disable the
PXI-GPIB onboard DMA controller using the board-level call
ibdma
.
Refer to the
NI-488.2M Software Reference Manual
for a complete
description of
ibdma
.
