Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Noboru Yamamoto <[email protected]> · Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:08:48 +0900

Rarback, Harvey wrote:
> 	Folks,
> 
> I just found out that the Agilent (HP) E2050B LAN/GPIB gateway is no longer available and since April has been "replaced" by the E5810A LAN/GPIB Gateway for Windows(r) 98/Me/NT(tm)/2000/XP.  Tech support at Agilent is not sure whether there have been any protocol changes between the two boxes.
> 
> Has anyone any experience with the E5810A, especially whether the existing drivers work with it?
> 
> Thanks.
>                                    --Harvey
> 
We have tested E5810A with EPICS E2050B support and confirmed it works with
it. You may need to change a startup script or setting of E5810A, though.
The default "GPIB SICL Interface name" on
HP2050A is "hpib" whereas it on HP5810A is "gpib0".
After changing "hpib" in drvHpGpibConfig command in the startup script
to "gpib0". EPICS software can establish the link and can control GP-IB
devices under the LAN-GPIB box, HP5810A. We are going to test the HP
5810A in more detail.

Regards,

Noboru Yamamoto
EPICS group/KEKB control Group
KEK, JAPAN

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System