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From: biocca@bevb.bev.lbl.gov (Alan Biocca)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: IEE488/VME/Unix
Message-ID: <3036@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 19 Jul 89 22:47:28 GMT
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Reply-To: biocca@bevb.bev.lbl.gov (Alan Biocca)
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In article <268@dptudg.sat.datapoint.com> lcz@sat.datapoint.com writes:
>twb@tropix.UUCP (Thomas W. Banister) writes:
>
>>  I have been working on implementing IEEE488 (GPIB) communications on a VME 
>>based computer running Unix SysV. There does not *seem* to be commercially 
>>available boards *and* drivers for this system. I would greatly appreciate 
>>hearing about any successful implementation of IEEE488 communications on a 
>>similiar system. 
>
>Motorola has a IEEE488 VME module, the MVME300.  They show it as being
>supported by VERSAdos and System V/68.
>
>I have no personal experience with this board, and I do not see a driver
>specifically for it in my release of System V/68.  Perhaps it comes with
>its own drivers?
>
>For more information, you may want to call Motorola's Microcomputer Division.
>Their phone number is 1-800-556-1234 x230.

We have recently received this board and Motorola supplied us with a unix
driver.  This driver was supplied on request at no charge, it did not come
with the board automatically.  It had comments in it indicating 'ported to
System V/68 release 3 & bug fix'.  I have not exhaustively searched it for
such comments beyond that one.  We have different requirements than you, we
plan to use it with vxWorks (anyone else out there done this yet) and will
hack the driver for that.

Alan K Biocca