Hi All,
Many thanks for all replies, a summary of the replies is given below - as yet
nobody has been able to directly connect an AC to W2000 using NMRLINK. A
W95 "buffer" machine is needed to run NMRLINK and files are then transfered to
W2000 work stations - we now have this setup and running.
>From Ian Luck <long_at_chem.usyd.edu.au>
No, you are the not the only one trying to link Win2000 and an AC.
Our solution to this was to use a third-party Win95 PC, which was hooked up to
the AC console via NMRlink, and networked accordingly to the W2000 stations, or
to the SGIs.
>From Alan Kenwright <a.m.kenwright_at_durham.ac.uk>
I was given the same information (that 2000 or XP wouldn't work) and I think
it's correct. However, you only need a low spec PC (even a 486 will do)
running 95 or 98 to act as a "buffer". You set up NMR-link on the PC running 98
(say) and then you share a directory from one of your PC's running 2000 so that
it is visible on the 98 machine. You can then write files "directly" from the
Aspect to that directory (ie to the PC running 2000).
>From Lawrence Byrnes <numare_at_eclipse.net>
Our lab was using Win 3.1 running on an ancient 80486 DX2 50 MHz machine
until two years ago. NMRLINK performed flawlessly. We installed a new
Pentium III 1 GHz computer with 5 PCI and 1 PCI/ISA slot. We chose a
motherboard with the PCI/ISA slot so that we could plug in the NMRLINK ISA
compatible communication board. We tried a number things to get the NMRLINK
board to be recognized by Win 2000 Pro to no avail. In the end, Bruker told
us that Win 2000 was incompatible with NMRLINK.
Our solution was to setup a network between the Pentium III computer and an
08486 DX2 66 machine using a program called Lantastic. NMRLINK is installed
and run on the 80486 to get files from the Aspect computer. Win 2000 sees
the 08486's hard drives via the Lantastic network. The data is moved from
the 80486 hard drive to the Pentium III hard drive and then processed with
WinNMR on the new machine. The two computers share monitor, mouse and
keyboard via a Belkin Omni View 2 port KVM switch.
>From "Rokosz, Michael (M.J.)" <mrokosz_at_ford.com>
We are currently in the same state you are with the exception of being
"forced" to abandon Win95. However we must make provisions for the
future. There are two considerations, 1) one needs a computer with an ISA slot
for the custom "parallel port card" which the NMRLINK interface is (in
our case, two such slots since we connect to two spectrometers 2) the operating
system must allow direct access to a hardware address by a program run in a DOS
window.
Further complications which are endemic to NMR Link are also troubling such as
the inability of NMRLINK to properly identify dropout sectors resulting in the
termination of multifile transfers when a dropout is encountered.
Once again - many thanks,
Cheers,
Mark
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Received on Mon Jul 08 2002 - 08:24:23 MST