[Info-vax] VMS faxing

[Rich Jordan]

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 5:03:29 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <58364238-c3ac-4608... at googlegroups.com>,
> Rich Jordan <jor... at ccs4vms.com> wrote: 
> >On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 7:45:29 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> I don't know, but I'll check your old DECServer out. If it's the usual=20 
> >> power supply problem, it'll be about $150 to rebuild the supply.=20 
> > 
> > I doubt that is the problem. We replaced the power supply about a yea= 
> >r ago and I still have another spare from a 16 port unit that got recycled.= 
> > There is no indication of fault on the DS700 and it was tested before ins= 
> >talling there. 
> 
> No, no, I am offering to fix the DS200, so that you can go back to the 
> original configuration. The old decserver, not the new one.
> --scott 
> 
> -- 
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Sorry for misreading.  I'll let you know, but right now the customer is considering getting DS200s again so its possible.  

We tried setting everything to 9600 baud, and that eliminated the hashing but not the scan line drops; the output looked about the same as when running at 19200 with the fax$send_delay logical set to 5 or 6   (every other value generates the hash).  Problem was that every job 'failed' even though it generated a fax.  So with retry set to 2 it would send three copies of the fax then generate a failure report.  Every time.  Switched back to 19200 and that problem went away.

May still try putting DNAS software on the DS700 when its less busy.  During our half our or so test window nearly 100 faxes piled up, so we're going to have to do early morning or Sunday...