Re: Motor Record - OMS58 Driver

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

Thanks a lot!

Of course this was the rootlet of evil.
I was only looking in the release notes - not in the list of known problems.

Cheers,
Ralph


Gillingham, IJ (Ian) wrote:
> This is the very same issue I experienced when migrating my application
> from R3.13.9 to R3.14. I concur with Ron about the undocumented change
> in parameters. On dropping the 'Number of axes' parameter, it all sprang
> into life! It took me a couple of days to track it down.
>
> Regards,
> Ian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ronald L. Sluiter [mailto:sluiter@aps.anl.gov] 
> Sent: 13 April 2007 15:40
> To: Ralph Lange
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: Re: Motor Record - OMS58 Driver
>
>
> Ralph,
>
> If you look at the "Known Problems" from R5-4 to R5-9 on the motor
> record web page;
>
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/upd/people/sluiter/epics/motor/index.html
>
> you will find the following;
>
>   
> >    1. An undocumented change was made in R5-4 to two OMS setup
> >       functions. Namely, the unused 2nd argument ("axes per card") was
> >       eliminated from omsSetup() and oms58Setup().
> >
> >     
> In other words, the 2nd argument was eliminated.  That is probably your 
> problem.
>
> Ron
>