Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hi,

 

I can comment that you don’t need pmacAsynCoord any longer when using the pmac driver.

pmacAsynCoord was a separate module from tpmac, but pmac supports coordinate systems using the built-in

pmacCreateCS and pmacCreateCSAxes

 

I would be pleased to give you an example that I tested only a few weeks ago – excerpt below:

 

# Create CS (CSPortName, ControllerPort, CSNumber, ProgramNumber)

pmacCreateCS("PPMAC_1_CS_2", "pwbrick", 2, 10)

# Configure Model 3 CS Axes Driver (CSPortName, CSAxisCount)

pmacCreateCSAxes("PPMAC_1_CS_2", 9)

 

Thanks,

 

Ronaldo

 

 

Greetings EPICS Experts,

 

I’m currently trying to use pmacAsynCoord with the power pmac (pmac-2-5-20 from https://github.com/dls-controls/pmac), which I’ve used successfully on the turbo many times.  When calling pmacAsynCoordCreate() I get a spew of errors of the form:

 

2023/08/16 08:45:37.298 drvPmacAxisGetStatus: not all status values returned. Status: 0

Command :&2??

Response:

$0000780000060001

$0000780000060001

 

This is the same output as I get from the controller.  I’m not so experienced with the Power version and am wondering if I may just be missing some pmac setting or if there is something else I may be misconfiguring.  Any advice is much appreciated.  My st.cmd is below.

 

Best Regards,

 

-Dean Hidas

 

 

 

#!../../bin/linux-x86_64/IVU18

 

< envPaths

 

epicsEnvSet("PMAC1_IP", "192.168.0.200")

epicsEnvSet("sys", "SR:C09-ID:G1")

epicsEnvSet("dev", "IVU18:1")

epicsEnvSet("STREAM_PROTOCOL_PATH", "/usr/lib/epics/protocol:$(TOP)/proto")

 

cd "${TOP}"

 

## Register all support components

dbLoadDatabase "dbd/IVU18.dbd"

IVU18_registerRecordDeviceDriver pdbbase

 

# Create SSH Port (PortName, IPAddress, Username, Password, Priority, DisableAutoConnect, noProcessEos)

drvAsynPowerPMACPortConfigure("BRICK1port", $(PMAC1_IP), "root", "deltatau", "0", "0", "0")

 

# Configure Model 3 Controller Driver (ControlerPort, LowLevelDriverPort, Address, Axes, MovingPoll, IdlePoll)

pmacCreateController("Brick", "BRICK1port", 0, 8, 100, 1000)

# Configure Model 3 Axes Driver (Controler Port, Axis Count)

pmacCreateAxes("Brick", 8)

 

# Create CS (ControllerPort, Addr, CSNumber, CSRef, Prog)

# Gap: Coordinate System 2 | PROG 2

pmacAsynCoordCreate("BRICK1port", 0, 2, 0, 2)

 

# Configure CS (PortName, DriverName, CSRef, NAxes)

drvAsynMotorConfigure("BrickCS2", "pmacAsynCoord", 0, 4)

 

cd "${TOP}/iocBoot/${IOC}"

iocInit

 

 

 

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