Fehlerhaftes DAQmx-Update

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Zitat:Dear National Instruments Customer,

Please be advised that National Instruments identified a problem in
NI-DAQmx 8.6 that in some cases may corrupt your configuration data in
Measurement & Automation Explorer (MAX) when upgrading NI-DAQmx. If you
have installed any of the listed “Products Affected” you must determine if
you are affected by this issue by visiting http://www.ni.com/info and entering
code “rda3a3”. Included below are instructions on how to return systems
with configuration corruption in MAX to a working state and instructions to
download and request replacement discs. Please accept our apology for any
inconvenience this may cause. National Instruments is committed to your
total satisfaction and to maintaining your confidence in our products.

Warning: This functional error can cause loss of data and/or corruption of
data, damage to your computer software system, including system crashes,
failure of hardware and/or software systems, and malfunctions or failures
of electronic monitoring or control devices. To avoid harm to property or
persons, including the risk of bodily injury or death, you must determine
whether you are affected and take the “Action Required” described below.

Our records indicate you received one or more products affected by this
problem. Please carefully review the following information to determine the
action you should take in connection with this notification.

Products Affected
You may be affected by this issue if you installed NI-DAQmx from the
following Fourth Quarter 2007 Developer Suite or Software Reference Library
media:

- Device Driver Reference CDs
- LabVIEW 8.5 Professional Development System and Device Drivers DVD

You may experience the problem described above if you selected the
installation of any of the following products from the Fourth Quarter 2007
Driver CDs:

- NI-DAQmx 8.6
- NI-DCPower 1.1.2
- NI-DMM 2.7.2
- NI-FGen 2.5
- NI-HSDIO 1.5.2
- NI-RFSA 2.0.6
- NI-RFSG 1.3
- NI-Scope 3.4
- NI-Switch 3.6.1

Action Required
If any of the products above are installed on your system, you must
determine whether you have been affected and how to resolve the problem by
visiting http://www.ni.com/info, entering code “rda3a3”, and following the
procedure described there. If none of the products above are installed on
your system, you are not currently affected by this issue. We request that
you discard only the following affected discs shipped with Fourth Quarter
2007 Developer Suite:

- NI LabVIEW 8.5 Professional Development System and Device Drivers DVD
- Device Drivers for Data Acquisition, Instrument Control, Motion and
Vision, Disk 1 of 3
- Device Drivers for Data Acquisition, Instrument Control, Motion and
Vision, Disk 2 of
- Device Drivers for Data Acquisition, Instrument Control, Motion and
Vision, Disk 3 of 3


You may continue to use the corresponding discs from the August 2007
Developer Suite. If you no longer have the August 2007 discs, you can
download or request replacement discs at http://www.ni.com/info and enter code
“rda3a3”.

If you are not the end user of these products, National Instruments asks
for your help in notifying the end user by forwarding this letter to the
end user or providing National Instruments with information to help locate
the end user.

Please accept our apology for any inconvenience this may cause. National
Instruments is committed to your total satisfaction and to maintaining your
confidence in our products. If you have any further questions, please do
not hesitate to contact National Instruments support at http://www.ni.com/ask or
by telephone at 0348 433466.

Regards,

Gavin Fox
Product Support Engineer
National Instruments

Besonders interessant fand ich den Satz: "including the risk of bodily injury or death"

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Dies kam soeben aus der NI-Zentrale:
Besonders interessant fand ich den Satz: "including the risk of bodily injury or death"

Tja, als amerikanischen Unternehmen muss man sich (wahrscheinlich) gegen alle Eventualitäten absichern. Könnte ja sein, dass du in einem Wutanfall gegen deinen Computer:pccrash:trittst und dir dabei den großen Zeh brichst...... Oder vor lauter Schock, dass dein Projekt zerschossen wurde, einen Herzanfall kriegst....