Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Wang, Andrew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 18 Jun 2021 17:45:52 +0000

Hi Mark,

Ah shoot, I totally missed that. Thanks for pointing that out.

Is there an alternative approach?

Thanks,
Andy

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From: Mark Rivers <rivers at cars.uchicago.edu> 
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 10:39 AM
To: Wang, Andrew <wang126 at llnl.gov>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: Re: PINI field for lsi record doesn't seem to work?

Hi Andy,

If you look at the record reference manual for the lsi record here

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4-docs/lsiRecord.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!itLLdJGxVkYXYovQyAVT9J7NWjWci0hie9PaCqBFlICHSo37DCv0iUTZ85cVFoCmA2I$ 

<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://epics.anl.gov/base/R7-0/4-docs/lsiRecord.html__;!!G2kpM7uM-TzIFchu!itLLdJGxVkYXYovQyAVT9J7NWjWci0hie9PaCqBFlICHSo37DCv0iUTZ85cVFoCmA2I$ >you will see that the VAL field has DCT=NO.  I believe that means you cannot initialize the VAL field in your database file, but I could be mistaken.  Did you see any error or warning when you loaded the database file?

Mark

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Wang, Andrew via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 12:31 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov
Subject: PINI field for lsi record doesn't seem to work?

All,

I have a simple lsi record shown below.

record(lsi, "joke_record")

{

              field(SIZV,  128)

              field(VAL,  "If you read this, tell me a funny joke")

              field(PINI, "YES")

}

When I start up the IOC and do a caget on "joke_record", I do not get the initial value. Feel like there is something very simple I forgot...

Thanks,

Andy

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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