Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Guy Jennings wrote:
> Is there any fundamental reason why we don't use the serial ports on the
> MVME167 Card in
> Epics?
> 
> We have successfully used them to control SR570 current amplifiers.   It
> requires a small
> patch to vxWorks to add an ioctl call to change the number of stop
> bits.   If you have fewer
> than three serial devices interfaced per IOC (as we have) this allows
> you to dispense with
> the MVME162 card and IP modules etc.

We use a terminal server after we found that our serial devices have
one property that can't be set in the setup in a VT320 and as the terminal
server ports are already set up use the same setup for EPICS.
(Using a slightly modified version of drvAscii from Allan Honey of
Keck Observatory, drvSerial (from Jeff Hill) and tnetDev (from Bret 
Goodrich of Gemini). We don't know how many serial devices we're going
to end up with.

Maren Purves

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