Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:34:21 -1000 From: "Randal S. Masutani" <randal@comtest.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Galbraith <john@ece.arizona.edu>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, john@ece1.ece.arizona.edu Subject: Re: new GPIB driver revision available Message-ID: <199810200217.QAA24973@oldyeller.comtest.com> In-Reply-To: <20225.908823898@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Your message of "Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:58:02 PDT." <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On 19 Oct 98, at 21:04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199810191858.LAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> > >> Hi John, > >> > >> Sorry for pestering you with this, I've found a card at a reasonable > >> price which says "hardware compatible with NI-GPIB PCIIA", do you > >> think your driver would run that card ? > > > >Does it have an NI TNT chip on it? The "old" NI GPIB cards used the TI > >GPIB controller chip, and I don't think John's driver will work (well, > >if at all) with that. > > > >There's actually four different NI cards; the really old NEC-based > >ones, the TI based ones, the TI based ones with the GPIB accelerator > >chip and the TNT based cards. > > And what I'm trying to figure out is "If I tell my client to call the > Danish rep for Nat.Inst, what should he tell them that he wants to buy ?" I would recommend the NI ATGPIB/TNT boards if he can afford it. The TNT cards work the best with Johns drivers. Randal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ComTest Technologies, Inc. 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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