Re: [Linux-gpib-general] PCIIA problem

[frank m. h. <fm...@st...>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Mitchell Ferschweiler wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a National Instruments PCIIa card. When I try
> and write a string to a device (HP 3456A Digital
> Voltmeter), it freezes my computer. The transaction is
> complete, the instrument does what the command asked,
> but the computer completely stops responding (can't
> switch consoles, no response from the mouse, keyboard,
> etc..)

Yikes.  You could try turning off dma (set it to zero in your config
file).  I usually have access to a pc2a card, unfortunately I don't have
access to any gpib cards this summer.

Frank