Re: dm and edm problems with CA gateway

["Brian McAllister" <brian@hotrats.mit.edu>]

>>> On 3/4/2005 at 18:16:49 CST, Kenneth Evans, wrote:

  > The numbers in camonitor stayed in range.

  > However, the PV did get set to DRVH or DRVL sometimes

If you have DRVH/DRVL set, you will never see a value exceeding them on a
monitor.  The value will be constrained to those limits (in convert())
before monitor() is called.

To test for these large, random values you should have DRVH=DRVL so the
limits are not used.

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