Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Russell Kackley <[email protected]> · Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:50:39 -1000 (HST)

We use EPICS 3.13.8 on VxWorks here, so there might be differences when

running 3.14.9 on a Linux IOC, but here is what I can suggest.

   This is the resulting .db file:

   record(bo, XPP:PP:BO:SC ) {
     field(DESC, "Shutter Control")
     field(DTYP, "ACROMAG-445")
     field(OUT, "@bi0 P0 B0")
     field(ZNAM, "Open")
     field(ONAM, "Closed")
   }

We generate our .db files from capfast and sch2edif, but our .db files

have the record names enclosed in double quotes. It is possible that those

quotes aren't necessary.

7.  Run my IOC:

   ./st.cmd

   I get an error in the dbLoadRecords line:

   dbLoadRecords("db/xppPP.db")
   filename="../dbLexRoutines.c" line number=955
   Bad Field value dbPutStringError.
   Parsing ')'
      in file db/xppPP.db line 3
   db_parse returned -1

Your .db wants to use a bo record with DTYP = ACROMAG-445. For this to

work, before you use dbLoadRecords, you have to use a dbLoadDatabase

command that loads a .dbd file to tell EPICS how to handle a bo record

with DTYP=ACROMAG-445. Your .dbd file would contain something like this:

device(bo,INST_IO,...,"ACROMAG-445")
driver(...)

There is some other stuff that needs to be in the .dbd file, but I don't

have that handy right now. The "..." you have to fill in based on what is

in the ACROMAG driver code.

   Because my file is already expanded and contains no substitutions,
   I think I can load it with dbLoadDatabase().  I tried that, but
   the entire IOC died:

   dbLoadDatabase("db/xppPP.db")
   Thread _main_ (0x9a68098) can't proceed, suspending.

I am pretty sure that dbLoadDatabase can't be used to load records. I

think it is only used to load a "database definition file", so that it is

why the IOC is getting killed by your command. Hope this helps you.

--
Russell Kackley
Joint Astronomy Centre
Hilo, Hawaii

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System