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Subject: Re: Further OMS PC78 questions
From: Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <[email protected]>
To: "Kevin M. Peterson" <[email protected]>
Cc: Tech Talk EPICS <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:48:57 +0000
You can also enable asynTrace on the underlying asyn port to see all messages sent and received.

Mark

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> On Dec 4, 2025, at 10:35 AM, Peterson, Kevin M. via Tech-talk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> The "card does not exist" error means the driver didn't receive a response from the firmware very query of the controller in the motor_init function:
>
> https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Fgithub.com*2Fepics-motor*2FmotorOms*2Fblob*2F2316f55f10e2b9735f76c2cbc6d9dd488a103cfb*2FomsApp*2Fsrc*2FdrvOmsPC68.cc*23L775-L776&data=05*7C02*7Ctech-talk*40aps.anl.gov*7C52ca1d4c92ec4ac5203b08de33532990*7C0cfca18525f749e38ae7704d5326e285*7C0*7C0*7C639004629428549908*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ*3D*3D*7C0*7C*7C*7C&sdata=*2FEzqYdp10nQD67piW*2F1xpgIWUM8*2B9WlfY7uP4XEcg30*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!G_uCfscf7eWS!ZzOsgYiiU-zfL2QahhuVid2iD9y3KFzu68mbrVJ3OOAIkSg-NYDtVI_x18eYpEfBRYe9cD9q5yeFljo9FIONEJk$
>
> There is a debug variable, drvOmsPC68debug, that can be set to a non-zero value before iocInit to enable debug messages to be printed:
>
> var "drvOmsPC68debug", 10
>
> That should give us more information about what is failing.
>
> Kevin

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