Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Ralph Lange) · Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:34:53 +0200 (METDST)

> > The only problem could be Raw Soft Support, as there is no address
> > information in the INP/OUT fields and SHFT will always be 0. Right?
> 
> But if SHFT were allowed to be set by GDCT, wouldn't it just be
> overwritten by the device support layer in the cases where the device
> support sets this field, thus making it work for all cases?

Yup. I neither see any problems with the SHFT value made DCT accessible.
What do you think, Marty?

Another workaround (as SHFT is DB accessible):
Put a couple of dbpf commands at the end of the startup.command script
(after iocInit) to set the SHFT fields.

Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System