Mitchell Charity made necessary changes in software to accomodate printing. The external disk drive on this PowerPC, an APS-provided Seagate 4 Gigabyte unit, developed trouble and is being replaced. Tests will also be made to determine whether or not a PowerPC might help reduce other scanning bottlenecks, such as scanner manipulation or checksumming. Minor modifications were made to the Fujitsu 3096G scanner document feed mechanism to help eliminate static and provide better page seperation.
Early results show positive improvement in both areas.
Last quarter we reported that one DAT drive was failing and two others were providing unexpectedly low performance. A.3 Quality Control Mitchell Charity and Jack Eisan have begun a review of the FTP and processing logs to improve controls and actions based on errors reported. Currently in place is an e-mail messaging system which reports on any activity from the logs. All messages generated are being archived at Document Services. Citation accumulation, deduplication, and automatic linking.