Saving An Instrument State - Agilent Technologies 8753ET User Manual

Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results

Saving an Instrument State

Saving an Instrument State
1. Press
Save/Recall
❏
INTERNAL MEMORY
❏
INTERNAL DISK
❏
EXTERNAL DISK
configure as follows:
a. Connect an external disk drive to the analyzer's GPIB connector, and configure as follows:
b. Press
Local
followed by
x1
c. If your storage disk is partitioned, press
where you want to store the instrument state file.
d. Press
SET ADDRESSES
e. Enter the GPIB address of the peripheral, if the default address is incorrect (default = 00). Follow
the entry by pressing
f. Press
Local
—
SYSTEM CONTROLLER
—
TALKER/LISTENER
access operations.
—
USE PASS CONTROL
analyzer to take or pass control.
2. Press
Save/Recall
The analyzer saves the state in the next available register, if you are saving to internal memory, or saves
the state to disk. Although one file is shown to represent an instrument state on the analyzer display,
each instrument state is composed of numerous files (which can be viewed on a PC).
If you have saved enough files that you have used all the default names (FILE00  FILE31 for
NOTE
disk files, or REG1  REG31 for memory files), you must do one of the following to save more
states:
• use another disk
• rename an existing file to make a default name available
• re-save a file/register
• delete an existing file/register
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and select one of the storage devices:
SELECT DISK
connect an external disk drive to the analyzer's GPIB connector, and
DISK UNIT NUMBER
.
ADDRESS: DISK
.
x1
and select one of the following:
allows the analyzer to control peripherals directly.
allows the computer controller to be involved in all peripheral
allows you to control the analyzer over GPIB and also allows the
.
SAVE STATE
and enter the drive where your disk is located,
VOLUME NUMBER
.
and enter the volume number