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Message ID: 126     Entry time: 13 Nov 2019 08:15
Author: Ben Smith 
Type: Routine 
Category: Software 
Subject: Don't worry about "Param Not Found Type" error messages 
When we start the HV program (CAEN_SY4527), it spews error messages of the form:
"16:58:30.035 2019/11/13 [CAEN_SY4527,ERROR] [dd_sy4527.cxx:280:fParam_get,ERROR] Param Not Found Type : 0"

This is because the LV module in the SY5527 crate doesn't support some of the parameters that the driver wants to read 
(e.g. it support "RUpTime" rather than "RUp"). For our current usage, the errors are benign. But it does add to the list 
of deficiencies of the driver provided by core midas:
* No automatic discovery of total number of channels
* Confusing ODB structure
* No discovery of which features a module supports
* Odd detection of whether a channel is on/off
* ODB status doesn't update if module settings are changed with a different interface (e.g. SSH or Caen's Java-based GUI).

All these limitations are imposed by the core HV driver "class" in midas. Assuming we will be using Caen HV modules for the
foreseeable future, I think I should write a new slow control frontend that is less generic, but fixes all the above issues.
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