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Thank you Ralph,  Interesting.
Zen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Ralph Lange
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 1:29 AM
> To: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: Re: asynPortDriver Question
> 
> On 27.03.2011 00:11 Mark Rivers wrote:
> > Hi Zen,
> >
> > I don't think you can do that.  The first order problem is that there is no
> connection from the asyn driver to the AO:SC record, since it uses soft device
> support, not asyn device support.  I don't think there is a way to propogate
> alarm status between records at the database level except by using the MS
> qualifier on input and output links.  But I'm not a database programming expert,
> perhaps there is a way to do this.
> 
> You can point any unused input link of your "target" record to a field in your
> "source" record and make it "MS" to pull the severity from the
> "source". I know people that are regularly abusing the SIML input link to
> achieve this....
> 
> HTH,
> Ralph

References:

asynPortDriver Question Szalata, Zenon M.

RE: asynPortDriver Question Mark Rivers

Re: asynPortDriver Question Ralph Lange

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