Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Martin L. Smith" <[email protected]> · Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:24:29 -0500

Ralph,
There may be a problem in your st.cmd file where the VME58 address is.
The device support changed between these versions such that each
omsSetup line that you have should now be combined into 1 line.
So instead of having:
omsSetup(1, 8, 0xFC00, 180, 5, 10)
omsSetup(2, 8, 0xFC10, 180, 5, 10)
omsSetup(3, 8, 0xFC20, 180, 5, 10)
You would now just have:
omsSetup(3, 8, 0xFC00, 180, 5, 10)
The card number is now the number of cards and the address is
just the starting address of the first card. Subsequent cards
need to be addressed so that they are 10 addresses away from
the previous card. I can't remember in which version of the motor
record this got changed in but I'm pretty sure it is in some
release note somewhere.
Hope this helps.
Marty

Ralph Lange wrote:

Hi -
I'm moving a stepper motor application using an OMS VME58 card:
  from EPICS 3.13.9 / motor 4.9.3   to   EPICS 3.14.8.2 / motor 6.1
In the old setup everything works fine, in the new setup the driver
claims that it doesn't find the VME58 motor card. Hardware settings are
unchanged, the setup call in the st.cmd is the same.
Searching the release notes of the motor record I did not find anything
that I found applicable to my problem.
Before I dig into the code: Is there anything obvious that I didn't see?
Similar effects somewhere?

HW: vxWorks 5.4.2, mv2100, OMS VME58, test stand with no other VME cards.
Thanks a lot!
Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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