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Chapter 5
Peripherals
Software Installation
Why National Instruments Does Not Install All Peripheral Drivers
Installing Peripheral Drivers
VXIpc-850 Series User Manual
Your VXIpc-850 is one of the most complete PCs available on the
market, including desktop PCs. The VXIpc-850 includes video, IDE,
Ethernet, PCMCIA, SCSI, and GPIB, all of which require software
support to either enable them or maximize their performance. This
chapter contains information on how to install these drivers.
Although all drivers run concurrently with each other and can all run
together, each driver uses a certain amount of system resources.
Depending on the peripheral, these resources include DMA channels,
interrupts, or main memory. The latter is especially critical in a DOS
environment, where available memory can be as little as 400 KB with
all drivers loaded.
Because most VXIpc-850 users require some subset of the peripherals
offered, National Instruments allows the customer to determine where
system resources should be allocated, whether to peripherals, PCI or
ISA add-in boards, or applications.
Find the
c:\images
hard drive. In it are subdirectories that contain images of the
installation diskettes for the peripheral drivers.
For most of the drivers, installation simply requires you to change to
the appropriate subdirectory (for example, change to
for the Ethernet driver) and run the install or setup
c:\images\enet
program. Some drivers do require extra steps, so read the installation
instructions before installing the driver.
For more information on SCSI, video, or PCMCIA, refer to the
VXIpc -850 Peripherals User Manual.
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directory in the root directory of your internal
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