Re: HP Lan-GPIB gateway

[Eric Norum <eric.norum@usask.ca>]

On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 11:53 AM, stein@aps.anl.gov wrote:

> I am using the HP (Agilent) E2050A Lan /GPIB gateway with Epics 3.14b2. 
> I have some device support for a scope which I've modified from pre 
> 3.14 - and it's running on a solaris IOC. If I leave the device (the 
> gateway) unaddressed for a 'long' period of time (~30 minutes) and then 
> send a command to a GPIB instrument, I receive the following message:
>
> hpWriteCmd(142f28, 1320b4, 1): RPC: Unable to receive; An event 
> requires attention
>
> At this point, the only way to re-establish communications is to 
> "reboot" the ioc.
>
> Any ideas here?

What values do you have the 2050A communication timeouts set to?

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