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Subject: Re: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 11:32:50 -0700
But as far as I can tell, Kellee should be able to use ai records as the placeholders — and then things should work.

On Aug 14, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

Oops, my bad, I mis-read the dbCommon.dbd file, UDF /is/ writable, but
writing to the UDF field of an ao record has little effect:

tux% caput anj:ao.UDF 1
Old : anj:ao.UDF                     0
New : anj:ao.UDF                     0

I think what happened is that the record processed as a result of the
put [since UDF is marked pp(TRUE)], and the process routine overrode the
1 that I set the UDF field to with a 0.

I /can/ set UDF to make an ai record go into UDF/INVALID alarm, but that
doesn't work on an ao record, where I have to write NaN to the VAL field
instead (the UDF field acts more like an output for an ao record).

My apologies to Andrew Starritt who was evidently using an ai record,
whereas Kellee and I were both using ao records.

-- 
Eric Norum
[email protected]





References:
How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Kellee Summers
RE: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Lionberger, Carl A.
Re: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Kellee Summers
RE: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Andrew C. Starritt
Re: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Kellee Summers
Re: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Andrew Johnson
Re: How to tag soft channels as undefined/disconnected Andrew Johnson

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