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Drivers and Software
Files and Directories Installed on Your Hard Drive
PXI Features
PXI Trigger Connectivity
© National Instruments Corporation
Your hard drive includes a directory called
contains software and soft copies of manuals for the installed devices. The
directory structure under the
several levels.
In the
directory, you will find a
images
an
directory, and a
os
The
directory contains quick reference guides, technical
manuals
reference manuals, and National Instruments software manuals, all in
Adobe Acrobat format. To access any manual, change your directory to
c:\images\manuals
several files, one corresponding to each device.
The
directory contains a subdirectory corresponding to the operating
os
system installed on your controller.
The rest of the directories correspond to each device in your controller.
Within each of these directories are the drivers for the devices. These files
and directories are copied exactly from the manufacturer distribution disks,
so the naming conventions vary from device to device.
The SMB connector on the NI PXI-8108 front panel can connect to or from
any PXI backplane trigger line. A trigger allocation process is needed to
prevent two resources from connecting to the same trigger line, resulting in
the trigger being double-driven and possibly damaging the hardware. At
the time of this manual's publication, this software is not yet available for
Windows. Contact National Instruments for more information.
Chapter 2
directory is logically organized into
images
manuals
directory.
drivers
and list the contents of that directory. You will see
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Installation and Configuration
in its root that
images
directory,
NI PXI-8108 User Manual
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