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From: del@Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: hayes 2400 "brain damage"
Message-ID: <1001@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 88 19:07:23 GMT
References: <2148@stpstn.UUCP> <16285@onfcanim.UUCP> <3167@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <16321@onfcanim.UUCP>
Reply-To: del@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM (Erik Lindberg)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <16321@onfcanim.UUCP> dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale) writes:
>In article <3167@pt.cs.cmu.edu> tgl@zog.cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
> >
> >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?

Perhaps you just have a defective modem with a bad LED driver or a short?
It's been known to happen...

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del (Erik Lindberg) 
uw-beaver!tikal!pilchuck!del