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Subject: Re: Waveform record help
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Erik Johansson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:43:56 -0500
Erik Johansson wrote: 

If I bypass all EPICS db routines and fill the contents of a waveform
record by writing data directly to the BPTR address and then perform a
caget on the record, I get all zeros returned, regardless of the data
written. Why? What can I do so that caget returns the actual values in
the record? Note that I am doing this for debug/troubleshooting purposes
during system integration only.

You need to set the NORD field of the record as well, to indicate the number of data items actually contained in the array - if you haven't set it, it probably defaults to zero. Unfortunately the NORD field is marked special(SPC_NOMOD) meaning that you can't set it from CA or using dbpf, but I'll leave that as an exercise for you to work out...

- Andrew
--
Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
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