I've been through your pain with my E4406A , so now I have a dedicated
XP VM just for the task.

That's the way to go, all right. If your VM image doesn't contain anything private, you might think about zipping it up and uploading it to the manuals/firmware section at www.ko4bb.com .

-- john, KE5FX

I had trouble with the SCSI2SD v6 in both a 16702A and a 16702B.? Inertial Computing couldn't really figure it out either.? I finally tracked it down to the SCSI2SD couldn't be on the same SCSI chain with the CD ROM drive in either model analyzer.? But the analyzer's original hard drive could be on the same SCSI chain with the SCSI2SD card.? Weird.? So in the end, I had to do a two step process of 1) reigniting a working SCSI hard drive with the latest OS from the CD ROM drive, then 2) disconnect the CD ROM drive and do a DD (unix disk copy command) of the hard drive to the SCSI2SD.? From then on, the SCSI2SD worked without the hard drive installed (though, as indicated, the speed improvement isn't really there, probably due to other bottlenecks in the disk subsystem).? All this would require one to have a working hard drive in the analyzer to begin with, of course.? Which, without a speed improvement, doesn't offer a lot of value to using the SCSI2SD in this application (though I kept it and use it in the 16702B, keeping the original working hard drive as a backup since I wouldn't be able to reignite directly to the SCSI2SD if it failed).

The owner of Inertial Computing was very helpful in diagnosing all of this.? Great guy to work with.? But ultimately, the technology just didn't quite work as expected in THIS particular application...at least for me and across two analyzers.

Scott
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2 okt. 2018 kl. 08:51 skrev Neil Smith <neil@...>:

When I try to use the Agilent firmware updater (from the website) for my E4406A, I get warnings about the ancient MS JVM it tries to run. If I mess with the path, I can get it to run, but although the updater runs and netstat shows has a listening port on 0.0.0.0 UDP for BOOTP, it doesn't respond to the BOOTP request from the 4406 during the upgrade. If I run a different bootp agent in place of the updater, it issues a good IP to the 4406. This is the same on a Win7 and two Win10 platforms. (Firewalls and AV disabled in all cases)

All three can read the current cal and config files before I reboot into the bios. After a SEA (02), I see option 0 is the LAN card, so I pick that (03), and then select no interactive (down arrow), and the 4406 asks the LAN for the IP but never gets it.

On the LAN, I have a router, but very oddly, if I remove it and just run a bare Cisco switch with the 4406 and a PC, the 4406 doesn't detect the LAN interface at all. No sign of any obvious broadcast traffic or discovery packets, but I've not (yet) done a port monitor and captured all the L2 traffic on Wireshark. Pings, ftp and telnet all work fine with the 4406 running normally.

If I try to run the updater using the latest javaw.exe (update 181) or java.exe, it throws the usual errors about not being able to find the main class in the .jar

Is there a workaround I can use? Maybe unzip the .jar and put the classes into a folder and tell java to search there? Maybe run an ancient XP VM, or run the thing in Linux? Or can I use PXEboot or tftp with separate bootp, or some other way to get this thing updated? Any hints would be very much appreciated (other than time travel).

Current firmware is from 2000, the one I am trying to use is from 2007. Oh, and of course, the 4406 backlights are totally dead, so I have to use a LED torch to try to read the display.

Neil

Wow, excellent contributions. I have been wondering if I could get my
power supply to act as a rudimentary curve tracer over GPIB and it looks
like you've already done it.

I only have a self-built arduino GPIB adapter but I am very tempted to
see if it works in MATLAB now as I'm also a bit of a "MATLABaholic" (as
you put it)

Thanks!

Aaron

Dick Benson writes:

 Greetings HP Group

 Over the past decade or so, I have been enjoying lashing instrumentation to a PC via GPIB/HPIB and controlling it via MATLAB. I am a MATLAB aholic

 Recently a dozen or so applications were uploaded to the MathWorks File Repository.
 Maybe a few of you folks will find something of interest.

 S Parameter Utilities

 



 HP 8753 VNA Control

 



 Amplifier Design Tool

 



 A Semiconductor Curve Tracer

 



 A Single Channel Data Logger

 



 A Four Channel GPIB Data Logger

 



 HP 8970 Noise Figure Meter Control

 



 Spectrum Analysis with HP 8568b-8566b

 



 Two Port Measurements with HP 3577a

 



 A Tool for Measuring High Q Resonators

 



 VNA S11 Tracks

 



 VNA Impedance Measurement

 



 GPIB Control of HP Counters

 



 I use (and actually like) Win 7 with the Agilent 82357b HPIB/USB adapter.

 Kind regards,

 Dick

 


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Greetings HP Group

Over the past decade or so, I have been enjoying lashing instrumentation to a PC via GPIB/HPIB and controlling it via MATLAB. I am a MATLAB aholic

Recently a dozen or so applications were uploaded to the MathWorks File Repository.
Maybe a few of you folks will find something of interest.

S Parameter Utilities





HP 8753 VNA Control





Amplifier Design Tool





A Semiconductor Curve Tracer





A Single Channel Data Logger





A Four Channel GPIB Data Logger





HP 8970 Noise Figure Meter Control





Spectrum Analysis with HP 8568b-8566b





Two Port Measurements with HP 3577a





A Tool for Measuring High Q Resonators





VNA S11 Tracks





VNA Impedance Measurement





GPIB Control of HP Counters





I use (and actually like) Win 7 with the Agilent 82357b HPIB/USB adapter.

Kind regards,

Dick

I`ve had a look for these [Littelfuse 027001.H , 027004.H , 027004.H.....1A, 4A, and 5A respectively] on the internet, including the manufacturer, and their local agent, here, and others. I`m looking for perhaps a couple each,? to restore the 8656A to origonal. [A couple of the fuses that plug onto the PSU section had blown at some time , and had been replaced with fine TC wire wrapped arround the pins - a purists nightmare, and an unsafe practice!]

Can anybody in the group please help me with this?

BTW; What goes wrong with an 8656A after 27 years and 5 months use and abuse ? I hear you? ?ask : The usual selection of scratches, and bumps [these were cleaned with gasoline, as this didn`t dissolve anything, and got the deep grime out]. The fan didn`t need replacing, and is dated `81.Some of the plastic locating pegs had broken off the side plastic panels.? The instrument had been operated in a damp environment, so there was white corrosion inside the fan compartment. One display driver chip had failed, and was replaced - it was a common variety, available locally.The only repairs in 27 years appear to be a replacement 5Volt rail smoothing capacitor, and a large Tantalum in the supply to the attenuator, and the attenuator PSU crobar SCR. This only leaves? the PSU fuses to be looked at. Hoping this is of interest....................Don C. ZL4GX?