RE: DB Question

["Szalata, Zenon M." <zms@slac.stanford.edu>]

Thanks Mark,

I guess that is what is going on.  I will look at this.

Zen

 

From: Mark Rivers [mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu]
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 8:58 AM
To: Szalata, Zenon M.; tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: RE: DB Question

 

Hi Zen,

 

Remember that standard asyn device support for output records does the following at iocInit:

 

1)      Attempts to read the current value from the asyn port driver

2)      If that read returns asynSuccess then the VAL field in the record is replaced by the one read from the driver

3)      If that return does not return asynSuccess then the VAL field is not modified

 

This behavior is designed to support “bumpless reboots”.

 

I suspect your driver is returning asynSuccess on a call to asynInt32->read() at iocInit.  If you want to preserve the value of the VAL field from the database file then your driver must not return asynSuccess.

 

Mark

 

 

From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Szalata, Zenon M.
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:32 AM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: DB Question

 

Hi,

I am a bit confused by the following behavior.

I am using EPICS R3.14.12.2 and asyn R4.20.

I have a simple longout record:

 

record( longout, "$(P):$(N):LO:BTOI:NCOEF"){

  field( DESC, "N Coefs:")

  field( DTYP, "asynInt32")

  field( OUT,  "@asyn($(PORT),$(N),1)LO_NCOEF")

 field( VAL,  "2")

  field( PINI, "1")

}

 

After this record is done initializing, caget on it gives me 0.

 

I have introduced another record as follows:

 

record( longout, "$(P):$(N):LO:NCOEF"){

  field( DESC, "N Coefs:")

  field( VAL,  "2")

  field( OUT,  "$(P):$(N):LO:BTOI:NCOEF PP")

  field( PINI, "1")

}

record( longout, "$(P):$(N):LO:BTOI:NCOEF"){

  field( DESC, "N Coefs:")

  field( DTYP, "asynInt32")

  field( OUT,  "@asyn($(PORT),$(N),1)LO_NCOEF")

# field( VAL,  "2")

#  field( PINI, "1")

}

 

With these two records the second one now has the correct value.

Why does the single record solution lose its VAL value?

 

Thanks in advance,

Zen