Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:06:14 -0500

Ralph Lange wrote:
> 
> > > The only problem could be Raw Soft Support, as there is no address
> > > information in the INP/OUT fields and SHFT will always be 0. Right?
> >
> > But if SHFT were allowed to be set by GDCT, wouldn't it just be
> > overwritten by the device support layer in the cases where the device
> > support sets this field, thus making it work for all cases?
> 
> Yup. I neither see any problems with the SHFT value made DCT accessible.
> What do you think, Marty?
> 

I dont see a problem except that it may be confusing.

> Another workaround (as SHFT is DB accessible):
> Put a couple of dbpf commands at the end of the startup.command script
> (after iocInit) to set the SHFT fields.

I think I prefer this as a solution because using raw soft support will
not be used very often. 

Note that this discussion also applys to mbbiRecord and mbboRecord as
well as to mbbiDirectRecord and mbboDirectRecord.

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System