<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR><STYLE>@font-face { font-family: Wingdings;}@font-face { font-family: Tahoma;}@page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; }P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}DIV.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}A:link { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}SPAN.MsoHyperlink { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}A:visited { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}SPAN.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { COLOR: purple; TEXT-DECORATION: underline}P { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"}SPAN.emailstyle17 { COLOR: windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: Arial}SPAN.EmailStyle19 { COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial}DIV.Section1 { page: Section1}</STYLE></HEAD><BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue><DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV><BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><SPAN class=607250517-05052004><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=029312318-05052004> > </SPAN>Also, I have seen horrible things--complete paralysis or nasty unfixable error messages<SPAN class=029312318-05052004> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=607250517-05052004><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=029312318-05052004>></SPAN>-occur at wakeup when there were 2 System Controllers on the same bus. Can't remember what triggered the problem unfortunately.</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=607250517-05052004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>There is a possible alternative.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> Turn on the LAN Server of your "main" system.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Throw away the other GPIB card.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Access the GPIB card of the main system from the second pc as if it were a LAN-GPIB converter.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This still uses the GPIBx names. Of course, it assumes both computers have LAN and that</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>you weren't trying to test the GPIB card itself.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=029312318-05052004> <P><FONT size=2>Les Hammer<BR>Partner<BR>Complete Test<BR>720 SW 14th St.<BR>Loveland, CO. 80537<BR>Les.Hammer@CompleteTest.com </FONT></P></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>---<BR>You are currently subscribed to vrf as: rsb@soco.agilent.com<BR>To subscribe send a blank email to "join-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To unsubscribe send a blank email to "leave-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".<BR>To send messages to this mailing list, email "vrf@agilent.com". <BR>If you need help with the mailing list send a message to "owner-vrf@it.lists.it.agilent.com".</BODY></HTML>