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Re: (ASCEND) K56Flex modems marked N\A
Yeah you are right. I seem to remember something like this before. My
math was way off today so I'm glad someone else can add.
Thanks
Bennie
>On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Bennie Warren wrote:
>
>> I have a new 4004 chassis with six 12 modem cards. The problem I have is
>> all of them have the same 4 modems marked N/A 11, 12, 15, and 16. I shut
>
>Yes, this is normal. Try the math again. :) You have a card with 12
>modems on it. Your status display has 16 entries. Ergo, four of those 16
>entries will not have any modems associated with them. Marking them as
>unusable is the Max's way of showing that they aren't there.
>
>I am not sure why the status display doesn't simply have only 12 slots
>when a 12-modem card is in use; or why it doesn't do the obvious thing and
>mark 1-4 or 12-16 unusable. My guess is that it is an electronic
>artifact caused by the design of the cards - it's simpler to have a
>12-modem card look like a 16-modem card with 4 broken ones than to add
>circuitry/software to identify it separately. That's just conjecture, of
>course, and probably not very good conjecture at that. :) But that's the
>way it is.
>
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