Agilents new Chemstation B 32 bit needs conversion software

[HPtarget]

I am looking for conversion software that can convert the chemstation B32bit into the original chemstation A 16bit channels.

Our system can read the Chemstation A 10.0 but not the Chemstation B 32 bit LC data. (big problem)
We cannot and will not use Chemstation B software since it is slow and does not work with our LIMS system.


Regards,

[asm]

Why don't you use the Chemstation A.10.02?

[HPtarget]

The detector cannot run on chemstation A only chemstation B.
And managerment that bought it never paid attention to this and so we are stuck with this Hardware.

[dblux_]

Is exporting to AIA from B and consecutive importing to A possible ?

[Yama001]

AIA export may work. I am using the MS Chemstation (G1701+); our obselete Target system cannot read the GC data files anymore. The workaround is to create an AIA file and use that. The Agilent conversion utility steps on the acquisition timestamp, so we do some additional gymnastics to fix that.

[HPtarget]

For the late reply, the Chemstation 32 AIA is some times funky. The Chemstation MS works better, but Target 3.5 has a scaling factor I cannot find where to turn it off.

[Yama001]

I am using the last Target version - 4.14 on Win XP. I cannot recall where the Unix 3.5 setup is, but on our system there is a System Configuration utility. The instruments are defined there (default.i, instname.i, etc).

The scaling factor we use for the ANDI/AIA data is 1, which presumably means no scaling.

[HPtarget]

Thanks. I found the instrument config and it works but i have to backup that first to make sure any old data will not be affected.

Regards

[mpete777]

I came across this on one of my billion google searches and have read this forum before many times. When I saw mentions of target I assumed this post was ten years old.

We also use target. I am a system admin stuck on RHEL 3.

I am trying to solve 2 big issues.

The first, and the reason I was here, is that I want to upgrade our a.10.02 machines to Win7 for XP end of life. I tried B.04.03 first but no dice with Target. I was now wandering If any of the versions of B would produce a data file that Target could process. I am having no issues with MS chemstation E.02 on win7.

Second, I would love more than anything to get Target installed on XP. We do not have a huge Linux knowledge base in house and RHEL 3 is so out of date it's pathetic. We bought the source for Target but I would have no clue of how to port to windows because it's all unix/Linux compilable.

Do you still have the windows installers? I'm not sure if the nearly 2 decades of customizations we have made would all work with it but I would definitely give it a shot. Most of the changes we made are in perl which should def work in xp, I just need to get it installed and work from there.

Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated.

[HPtarget]

For Chemstation B32, there is a option to do a down grade where you are using chemstation B but it looks and feels and outputs Version A (this only works if you detector has the support) For example, we have two chemstation B for LCs and one we can down grade since the hardware supports it and it great. The other we have to convert to .cdf and it is a pain.

Now, GC so far upto 7890B we can convert no problems.

Let me see what can I do about the windows Target (we have some cds but I have to look to make sure). Also, last time i touch it I believer i needed to get a new license which I have a contact now.

And mpete777 if you do not mind if we can pick your knowledge on the linux side of things.
We use target on HPunix and it runs very well.

Sorry for the late response I have been busy.