Agilent Technologies E1300B, E1301B, 75000 SERIES B Downloading Drivers in Gpib Systems with Basic

Downloading Drivers in GPIB Systems with BASIC

The device driver download program VXIDLD_GET provided on the disk with the driver files for use with GPIB must be run from an BASIC other than IBASIC. 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 Command Module (E1405) is not set to System Controller mode.

2.Put the floppy disk into an appropriate drive.

3.Make sure that the floppy disk is your current drive (for example, type ’MSI ":,700,1"’ and press ENTER).

4.Load the device download program into BASIC (type ’GET

"VXIDLD_GET"’ and press ENTER) and run the program (type "RUN" and press ENTER).

5.The download 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 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 and will cause the program to abort.

6.The download program will check to make sure that the device driver was successfully downloaded.

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