Agilent Technologies 75000 SERIES B, E1301B, E1300B Downloading Drivers in MS-DOS Systems

Downloading

Drivers in MS-DOS

Systems

WARNING

The device driver download program VXIDLD.EXE provided on the disk with the driver files for use with an RS-232 interface must be run from MS-DOS. It will set up the the required device driver memory and any other memory partitions defined in the configuration file, reboot the system, and download the device driver. If there are device drivers present, or you already have memory allocated for NRAM (User Non-volatile RAM) or RDISK (RAM Disk), a warning will be issued and the downloading process aborted. You must first clear any existing drivers from the system, and then download all of the required drivers together. You may redefine any NRAM or RDISK areas after downloading the device drivers.

1.Make sure that your computer can talk to the E1405 Command Module. If you have changed the communications protocol for the Command Module or mainframe, you must change them back to 9600 BAUD, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity before this download will work correctly.

These are the defaults after cold boot. If necessary, you can change the baud rate and number of stop bits in the configuration file, but since the special formatting required for downloading over RS-232 requires all 8 data bits in each byte, you must make sure that the data bits are set to 8 and parity checking is OFF. The download program handles its own pacing, so the setting for pacing does not matter.

2.Put the floppy disk into an appropriate drive.

3.Make sure that the floppy disk is your current drive (for example, type "A:" and press ENTER).

4.Execute the device downloader program (type "VXIDLD" and press ENTER).

5.The downloader program will check to make sure that there are no device drivers already loaded, and no memory has been allocated for NRAM or RDISK. If either condition exists, the program will issue a warning and abort. If not, it will create the required RAM partitions, reboot the system, and download the device driver on the supplied disk.

Any errors encountered while downloading will be reported.

6.The download program will check to make sure that the driver has been downloaded and is in memory.

Terminate and Stay Resident programs in your MS-DOS system may interfere with the timing of RS-232 transfers and cause errors in the downloading. If you encounter errors indicating that the download program did not receive back what it expected, and the driver is not loaded, remove all of your TSRs from memory and try the download procedure again.

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