Experimental Physics and
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"Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 6 May 2021 18:38:18 +0000

> On May 6, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
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>> But fsControl is also SCAN=Passive in the example. For the FLNK or the INP CP to work, something must trigger fsControl to process.
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> Randall's original message said:
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>> If I put to fsControl, it sets but nothing happens.
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> So my understanding is that he was doing a caput to fsControl, but the FLNK was not processing fsCalc, as it should have.

That would make sense given that DTYP was set; the asynInt32 device support will have disabled the record (leaving PACT as 1) when it didn’t see an address in the INP field. In that state a put to the ai record will not cause it to be processed.

- Andrew

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> From: Hartman, Steven <hartmansm at ornl.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:57 PM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Cc: Arnold, Ned D.; Randall Cayford; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] calcout record processing
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> On May 6, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
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> He did FLNK from fsControl to fsCalc.  If that FLNK is not actually processing fsCalc than I think it may be because of the DTYP/INP mismatch.
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> But fsControl is also SCAN=Passive in the example. For the FLNK or the INP CP to work, something must trigger fsControl to process.
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> --
> Steven Hartman
> hartmansm at ornl.gov<mailto:hartmansm at ornl.gov>
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System