diff --git a/sinqEPICSApp/src/NanotecDriver.cpp b/sinqEPICSApp/src/NanotecDriver.cpp index db25f8c..45c2c40 100644 --- a/sinqEPICSApp/src/NanotecDriver.cpp +++ b/sinqEPICSApp/src/NanotecDriver.cpp @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ FILENAME... NanotecDriver.cpp USAGE... Motor driver support for the Nanotec SMCI controllers connected to a RS-485 bus. +These motors sit on a bus. The address on the bus is a random number, not +necessarily the motor number. These asyn motor drivers do not have access to +the motor record. Thus it was impossible to pass the bus address through. +The option was to create an axiliary record but this sucked too because the +bus address a motor is an initialisation parameter and should not be visible +in the EPICS database. Thus I choose to pass the bus address as a comma separated +list to the motor controller constructor. + Mark Koennecke July 2015