Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!onfcanim!dave
From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: hayes 2400 "brain damage"
Message-ID: <16321@onfcanim.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 88 04:51:32 GMT
References: <2148@stpstn.UUCP> <16285@onfcanim.UUCP> <3167@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: National Film Board / Office national du film, Montreal
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In article <3167@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
 >> 	2) You can tell the modem to hang up when DTR drops, OR
 >> 	   to reset itself to saved settings when DTR drops, but
 >> 	   not both.
 >
 >This is incorrect; the setting which causes the modem to reset itself
 >ALSO hangs up.  There is no way to reset the modem without hanging up
 >(it's not clear that that makes much sense, anyway).

Perhaps I misremembered - perhaps the problem is that it still answers
when the phone rings even when DTR is down.  I remember that there was no
way to get the modem to reset itself, and hang up the phone if it was
connected, and not answer rings, when DTR was down, and you want all
three at the same time.

 >> 	3) The DTR light on the front panel is always on, regardless
 >> 	   of the actual state of DTR, even when the modem is configured
 >> 	   to use DTR to prevent answer/hang up the phone.
 >
 >False. The light tracks the state of the DTR line UNLESS you configure
 >the modem to ignore DTR entirely, in which case the light remains on.

And I have one in my machine room that behaves as I described.  It's
one of the new V-series 2400's; perhaps these introduced new bugs
that weren't present in the plain 2400's?