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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



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