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Subject: RE: stop all motors
From: "Mark Rivers" <[email protected]>
To: "Kate Feng" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:05 -0600
Actually I use Linux, Windows and Cygwin IOCs in addition to vxWorks.  I have never had a problem with the transform record on any of these platforms, and others report no problems on RTEMS.  I agree that the dfanout can be used instead of the transform in this particular application, but there are many applications where this is not true, the transform record provides unique capabilities.  
 
Thus, if you are convinced that you have found a bug in the transform record it would be most helpful if you could track it down.  Of course it is possible that the bug is elsewhere in your application and the use of the transform record just happens to expose it.
 
Martk
 

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From: Kate Feng [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 1/13/2009 12:49 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: stop all motors



Mark Rivers wrote:
> Can you figure out why the transform record is causing the crash?  It is widely used with no other problems that I know of.
>  
You use vxWorks. We use RTEMS.
A generic record such as "dfanout" works very well for the purpose.
In fact, I do not think a custom record such as a "transform" record is
needed.

Kate
> 
> Mark
> 
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [email protected] on behalf of Kate Feng
> Sent: Tue 1/13/2009 11:00 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: stop all motors
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If the "all_com_32.db" is loaded in the database, it triggered system
> crash  while we were running one of our RTEMS applications.
> I traced down that the bugs were caused by the "transform" record
> (e.g. transformRecord.c) for the motor "allstop" function.  However,
> a generic record "dfanout" can replace it to function correctly.
> The attached all_com_32.db is what I used to solve the problem.
> It seems to work so far.
>
> Regards,
> Kate
>
> #Kate Feng 12/30/2008:Use "dfanout" instead of "transform" for motor
> "allstop"
> grecord(bo,"$(P)allstop") {
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUT,"$(P)allstop1.VAL  PP MS")
> }
> grecord(bo,"$(P)gateOpen") {
>     field(ZNAM,"Closed")
>     field(ONAM,"Open")
> }
> grecord(calc,"$(P)alldoneBlinker") {
>     field(SCAN,".5 second")
>     field(CALC,"B?0:!A")
>     field(INPA,"$(P)alldoneBlinker.VAL  NPP NMS")
>     field(INPB,"$(P)alldone.VAL  NPP NMS")
> }
> grecord(dfanout,"$(P)allstop5") {
>     field(DESC,"allstop distribution")
>     field(OMSL,"closed_loop")
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUTA,"$(P)m25.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTB,"$(P)m26.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTC,"$(P)m27.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTD,"$(P)m28.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTE,"$(P)m29.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTF,"$(P)m30.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTG,"$(P)m31.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTH,"$(P)m32.STOP  CA MS")
> }
> grecord(dfanout,"$(P)allstop4") {
>     field(DESC,"allstop distribution")
>     field(OMSL,"closed_loop")
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUTA,"$(P)m17.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTB,"$(P)m18.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTC,"$(P)m19.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTD,"$(P)m20.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTE,"$(P)m21.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTF,"$(P)m22.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTG,"$(P)m23.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTH,"$(P)m24.STOP  CA MS")
> }
> grecord(dfanout,"$(P)allstop3") {
>     field(DESC,"allstop distribution")
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUTA,"$(P)m9.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTB,"$(P)m10.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTC,"$(P)m11.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTD,"$(P)m12.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTE,"$(P)m13.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTF,"$(P)m14.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTG,"$(P)m15.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTH,"$(P)m16.STOP  CA MS")
> }
> grecord(dfanout,"$(P)allstop2") {
>     field(DESC,"allstop distribution")
>     field(OMSL,"closed_loop")
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUTA,"$(P)m1.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTB,"$(P)m2.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTC,"$(P)m3.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTD,"$(P)m4.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTE,"$(P)m5.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTF,"$(P)m6.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTG,"$(P)m7.STOP  CA MS")
>     field(OUTH,"$(P)m8.STOP  CA MS")
> }
> grecord(dfanout,"$(P)allstop1") {
>     field(DESC,"allstop distribution")
>     field(OMSL,"closed_loop")
>     field(DOL,"1")
>     field(OUTA,"$(P)AbortScans.PROC  PP MS")
>     field(OUTB,"$(P)allstop2.VAL  PP MS")
>     field(OUTC,"$(P)allstop3.VAL  PP MS")
>     field(OUTD,"$(P)allstop4.VAL  PP MS")
>     field(OUTE,"$(P)allstop5.VAL  PP MS")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldone") {
>     field(DESC,"All motors done moving")
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(PINI,"YES")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)alldone_1.VAL")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)alldone_2.VAL")
>     field(INCN,"$(P)alldone_3.VAL")
>     field(INDN,"$(P)alldone_4.VAL")
>     field(ININ,"$(P)gateOpen.VAL")
>     field(CALC,"A&&B&&C&&D&&!I")
>     field(DOLD,"1")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldone_2") {
>     field(DESC,"8 motors done moving")
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(PINI,"YES")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)m9.DMOV")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)m10.DMOV")
>     field(INCN,"$(P)m11.DMOV")
>     field(INDN,"$(P)m12.DMOV")
>     field(INEN,"$(P)m13.DMOV")
>     field(INFN,"$(P)m14.DMOV")
>     field(INGN,"$(P)m15.DMOV")
>     field(INHN,"$(P)m16.DMOV")
>     field(CALC,"(a&b&c&d&e&f&g&h)=1")
>     field(OOPT,"Transition To Non-zero")
>     field(DOLD,"1")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldone_1") {
>     field(DESC,"8 motors done moving")
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(PINI,"YES")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)m1.DMOV")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)m2.DMOV")
>     field(INCN,"$(P)m3.DMOV")
>     field(INDN,"$(P)m4.DMOV")
>     field(INEN,"$(P)m5.DMOV")
>     field(INFN,"$(P)m6.DMOV")
>     field(INGN,"$(P)m7.DMOV")
>     field(INHN,"$(P)m8.DMOV")
>     field(CALC,"(a&b&c&d&e&f&g&h)=1")
>     field(OOPT,"Transition To Non-zero")
>     field(DOLD,"1")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldone_3") {
>     field(DESC,"8 motors done moving")
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(PINI,"YES")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)m17.DMOV")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)m18.DMOV")
>     field(INCN,"$(P)m19.DMOV")
>     field(INDN,"$(P)m20.DMOV")
>     field(INEN,"$(P)m21.DMOV")
>     field(INFN,"$(P)m22.DMOV")
>     field(INGN,"$(P)m23.DMOV")
>     field(INHN,"$(P)m24.DMOV")
>     field(CALC,"(a&b&c&d&e&f&g&h)=1")
>     field(OOPT,"Transition To Non-zero")
>     field(DOLD,"1")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldone_4") {
>     field(DESC,"8 motors done moving")
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(PINI,"YES")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)m25.DMOV")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)m26.DMOV")
>     field(INCN,"$(P)m27.DMOV")
>     field(INDN,"$(P)m28.DMOV")
>     field(INEN,"$(P)m29.DMOV")
>     field(INFN,"$(P)m30.DMOV")
>     field(INGN,"$(P)m31.DMOV")
>     field(INHN,"$(P)m32.DMOV")
>     field(CALC,"(a&b&c&d&e&f&g&h)=1")
>     field(OOPT,"Transition To Non-zero")
>     field(DOLD,"1")
> }
> grecord(swait,"$(P)alldoneBlink") {
>     field(SCAN,"I/O Intr")
>     field(INAN,"$(P)alldone")
>     field(INBN,"$(P)alldoneBlinker")
>     field(CALC,"a?0:b")
> }
>
>
>
>  






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