548XX

[McChalium_Duntrune]

I have an

Agilent 54846B scope that has been orphaned at my company by the IT deparments banning anything but Windows 7 computers on our net. Unfortunately this scope runs on Windows 98 SE and there is NO WAY to upgrade it to Windows 7 even if I wanted to as there is not enough memory to run it on the motherboard. This scope still works fine and replacements run near $20,000. All I really want to do is to be able to download saved files off the hard drive to my workstation. Does the 

548XX driver from NI support transferring files from the scope to my local hard drive? I figured that I could buy a USB/GPIB cable to do this with as long as the driver supports downloads.

 

[Dennis_Knutson]

If the scope supports this functionality, then you can issue the command and do a read with or without a driver. Read the manual. I have no need to download the driver to look at it when you can do it yourself. Typically, a driver only supports transferring the waveform displayed on the screen. Saving the data to a file is about a five minute (or less) programming task.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

Is the hard drive removable?

You'll need to look at the service manual.

If it is removable, problem solved.

[McChalium_Duntrune]

Thank You for replying. Dismantling the scope everytime I wish to download files from it is not a viable solution. Thanks again for reponding.

[nyc_(is_out_of_here)]

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@McChalium_Duntrune wrote:

Thank You for replying. Dismantling the scope everytime I wish to download files from it is not a viable solution. Thanks again for reponding.

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Your post made it sound like the scope was no longer in use.

Anyway, read the programmer's manual.

[McChalium_Duntrune]

Dennis,

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, to my ignorant old mind, none of your response is specific enough to help. I am not a writer of software, have nearly no knowledge of NI products, and do not even know which manual you suggest I read. The scope manual is not much use because it presumes a connection to a LAN, from which it has been banished. It is easy to do if such a LAN is available, we used it that way for years. The scope manual says the scope supports GPIB, but I am not familiar with that either. Is your first sentence referring to a GPIB command?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Keysight will include the details of the programming commands in the main manual or a separate programming manual. Check with Keysight. The programming commands for LAN or GPIB are probably the same bit it sounds like you are using some canned software. You, or someone else will have to write new software unless you can find something pre-written. SignalExpress might be an option.

http://www.ni.com/tutorial/9860/en/

[Dennis_Knutson]

And since you can connect the scope to your pc without connecting to the company network, why isn't that viable?

[McChalium_Duntrune · Accepted solution]

I just had that thought... using a USB to ethernet adapter so no one would get excited about me mucking about with the LAN. Will try it out on Monday. Thanks again for the help, I'll let the thread know how it works out on Monday.