cyamamot@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Cliff Yamamoto) (11/14/90)
In article <901112204128.20e00d89@MISVAX.MIS.ARIZONA.EDU> SOLOMON@MIS.ARIZONA.EDU (Monty Solomon) writes: >My brand new Hayes Ultra 96 sends the following to my computer at 9600bps >after I power it up: >TEST 1 [RAM] FAILED >ADDRESS= 800000 DATA XOR= FF > >In the weeds (opcode FF encountered) at 0;0; (Phys 0/0/0/) >NMIMON> > >Has anyone else seen this with their Ultra 96? Well a few days ago, I received my brand new shrink wrapped box Ultra 96 and I couldn't EVEN talk to it! Whenever I powered it up, the SD light stayed on continously. The RD light was off. Then as soon as I sent ANY character down the line (any baud), the RD light would come on and STAY on. Out of the blue, I did get one error message (luckily I was listening at 9600 baud). TEST 5 [PIO] FAILED or something like that. Anyway, I can see that I'm not the only one with a flakey Ultra 96. I have already sent it back to where I bought it for an exchange so I'm looking forward to see how my replacement is. Toby, are you listening? Any comments about Hayes' QC? I'm still a loyal Hayes user after owning my Smartmodem 2400 for 5 years. I hope things haven't changed at Hayes. Regards, Cliff Yamamoto
mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) (11/14/90)
Where I work we just had a client buy a batch of modems from Computerland. The new Hayes US1000s (which are the combination old V9600 and X.25 modem now). We have had 5 that had to be repaired with new ROMs. And HAYES wouldn't even ship them via courier unless we paid. And then we have to spend the time doing the ROM swaps. I don't know about the QC. I don't think there is any anymore.
kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) (11/15/90)
We recently set up about 30 Ultras. One or two were bad. Seems like
a little higher failure rate than I'd like.
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Cliff Yamamoto (cyamamot@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ) wrote: >Whenever I powered it up, the SD light stayed on >continously. The RD light was off. Then as soon as I sent >ANY character down the line (any baud), the RD light would >come on and STAY on. Sounds like someone crossed your TxD and RxD lines! <grin> -- UUCP: watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root | 602-66 Mooregate Crescent Internet: root@zswamp.fidonet.org | Kitchener, Ontario FidoNet: SYSOP, 1:221/171 | N2M 5E6 CANADA Data: (519) 742-8939 | (519) 741-9553 MC Hammer, n. Device used to ensure firm seating of MicroChannel boards Try our new Bud 'C' compiler... it specializes in 'case' statements!