Motor Record: Known problems with Release 6-4
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R6-4 had 64-bit compile problems with the PI E816 and Aerotech Ensemble device
drivers. Fixed with R6-4-1 and above.
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Dirk Zimoch (PSI) discovered and fixed a bug in the orginial OMS MAXv driver (R5-4)
that caused the home switch status in the response string to be overwritten.
Fixed with R6-4-2 and above.
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A problem was introduced in R6-4 of the old motor record device drive
architecture. If during the move of one or more motors the motor task did not
issue an OS delay during status updates, it could potentially not respond to any
further motor commands. Fixed with R6-4-2 and above.
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There is a bug in these motor record versions (R6-4, R6-4-1, R6-4-2)
that affects motors that have encoders and are configured to do closed-loop
control via retries (i.e. UEIP=Yes and RTRY != 0). Retries are not done
correctly and occasionally motors exceed their maximum retries and are left at
their backlash position; i.e., command position - backlash distance. See the
Release Notice for further error conditions. Fixed with R6-4-3 and above.
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The asynMotor device support in general, and the simulated motor, in particular,
had save/restore related problems. Fixed with R6-4-4 and above.
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Previous releases of the Aerotech Ensemble device driver had incorrect Jog
speeds, lacked support for a negative PosScaleFactor parameter and did not
detect maximum travel limit switch faults correctly. Fixed with R6-4-4 and above.