RE: DTR won't come on for Auto Answer

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Art,

At 10:53 PM 12/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
> I remember a fix a LONG time ago (maybe on the
> 36) where you had to physically break off a pin on
> the cable to get something to work.  Maybe one of my coworkers
> remembers this.  I remember asking
> someone, "Did you break off pin xx?"

 I seem to recall it was pin 11, which was supposed to be used by
the system for testing IBM modems.

 -mark


> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: DTR won't come on for Auto Answer
> I'm making some progress with this ECS modem I'm using 
> (MultiTech
> MT2834BA).  Calling out to IBM with the QESLINE is working.  I
> created
> another line that I would like to use to call into the 400.  I get a
> connect
> pending but I never get a TR light on.  In order for the modem to
> answer the
> line I need the TR light on.  If I disconnect the 400 cable at the
> modem end I
> can see DTR pin 20 go high when the line is varied on (so I believe the
> 400 is
> configured for auto answer ok).  When the cable is connected to the
> modem it
> won't.  I seem to remember a problem like this many years ago with
> IBM
> boxes.  I seem to recall one of the pins on the modem had to be low
> before for
> the 400 would bring up DTR.  I don't recall which one it was. 
> Does
> someone remember the required sequence for the 400 to bring up DTR?
>
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