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<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) [Netscape]">
<meta name="Author" content="Ronald L. Sluiter">
<meta name="Description" content="Synopsis of modifications, fixes and new features for each motor record release.">
<title>EPICS Motor Record Release R6.2 Notice</title>
<title>EPICS Motor Record Release R6.3 Notice</title>
<meta name="author" content="Ronald L. Sluiter">
<meta name="description" content="Notification of bug fixes, functional changes and new features.">
</head>
<body>
<CENTER>
<H1><B><U>Motor Record Version 6.3 Release Notice</U></B></H1>
</CENTER>
<center>
<h4><u>Modifications to Existing Features</u></h4>
</CENTER>
<DIV align="left">
<P>
<U><B>save/restore of motor positions</B></U>
</P>
<P>
Mark River's found and fixed a bug in the motor record that resulted in motor
positions not being initialized from save/restore at boot-up if RDBD field was
not included in a save/restore save set.
</P>
<P>
<U><B>motorUtil error message</B></U>
</P>
<P>
A bug was introduced into the shell command "motorUtilInit()" affecting these
versions of the motor distribution; R6-2, R6-2-1 and R6-2-2. This bug resulted
in the erroneous error message; "motorUtilInit: Prefix %c: has more than 53
characters. Exiting"
</P>
<P>
<U><B>DC motor support</B></U>
</P>
<P>
Two changes were made to the motor record to better support DC motors.
<UL>
<LI>
With this release, if retries are disabled (RTRY=0), then all moves are done in
absolute mode. This allows a DC motor user to have the readback values
calculated based on either the local encoder (UEIP) or the readback link (URIP),
but still have all moves commanded in absolute mode. Previous releases the of
the motor record would use relative moves if either the local or external
readbacks were enabled, regardless of the state (enable/disable) of the retries.
</LI>
<LI>
The New Target Monitoring (NTM field) logic is changed to use reference rather
than feedback positions. This eliminates unwanted motor record STOP commands at
the end of DC motor moves.
</LI>
</UL>
</P>
<U><B></B></U>
</P>
<P>
</P>
</DIV>
<CENTER>
<H4><U>New Features</U></H4>
</CENTER>
<DIV align="left">
<P>
<U><B>Animatics Corporation SmartMotor</B></U>
</P>
<P>
Shifu Xu's support for the Animatics Corporation SmartMotor was added.
</P>
<P>
<U><B>piezosystem jena, Inc. EDS</B></U>
</P>
<P>
Joe Sullivan added support for the piezosystem jena GmbH EDS data interface module.
</P>
<U><B>Kohzu SC-800</B></U>
</P>
<P>
Ron Sluiter added support for the Kohzu SC-800 stepper motor controller.
</P>
</DIV>
<CENTER>
<H1><B><U>Motor Record Version 6.2 Release Notice</U></B></H1>
</CENTER>
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<P>
The STUP field (Status Update) has been modified due to bug fixes. The STUP
field functions as follows;
<ul>
<UL>
<LI>
Valid values for STUP are OFF(0), ON(1) and BUSY(2).
</LI>