Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Thu, 25 Oct 2001 07:21:40 -0500

Pedro Gigoux wrote:

> at the beginning of ecsMotorRecord.dbd. The fields are defined as
> follows:
> 
>         field(SIMM,DBF_MENU) {
>                 prompt("Simulation Mode")
>                 asl(ASL1)
>                 pp(NO)
>                 interest(1)
>                 menu(ecsMotorSIMM)
>                 initial("0")
>         }
>         field(DBUG,DBF_MENU) {
>                 prompt("Debug Mode")
>                 asl(ASL1)
>                 pp(NO)
>                 interest(1)
>                 menu(ecsMotorDBUG)
>                 initial("0")
>         }
> 
> Despite the "initial" statements, SIMM and DBUG have big (and invalid)
> values after iocInit completes. Any ideas?

The initial value must be one of the valid menu choices.
Look at <base>/dbd/dbCommon.dbd. It has the definitions

        field(STAT,DBF_MENU) {
                prompt("Alarm Status")
                special(SPC_NOMOD)
                menu(menuAlarmStat)
                initial("UDF")
        }
        field(SEVR,DBF_MENU) {
                prompt("Alarm Severity")
                special(SPC_NOMOD)
                menu(menuAlarmSevr)
                initial("INVALID")
        }

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System