Hi Hubert,

As you suggested we(IhnJea, TeaJun, and I) tried several combinations
of wire connection between the following shieldings and the PHENIX
magnet.  ``o'' stands for connection to the magnet and ``x'' stands
for no connection to the magnet.

Run#    Kapton     PowerCom    Enclosure   noise

68988     x           x           x        2.276

69008     x           x           o        1.786

69018     x           o           o        2.182

69024     o           o           o        2.514

69030     o           o           x        1.953

69038     o           x           x        2.521

69057     connect(Kapton + PowerCom)       2.739

69062     connect(Kapton + Enclosure)      2.585

69171     x           x           o        1.692

where, numbers in the ``noise'' column are sigmas of the pedestal
for packet2064_ch255.

After finding the best combination (Kapton and PowerCom shielding
were left unconnected, and only MVD Enclosure was connected to
the magnet) from run_69008, we fixed wire connections according to
this configuration before we were kicked out from IR.  Then we took
data with this final configuration (run_69171) to make sure we did
it correctly.

If anyone interested, please look at
/home/phnxmvd/kang/timing_scan_2003/offline/wrk/r69171_p2078_c160.ps
for a typical pedestal.
Or, one can look the data file
/common/buffer2/junkdata/rc-0069171-MVD-*.prdf.
Anyway, looks to me encouraging.

Now we are hoping that MVD can be included in the main DAQ using
only about 10 MCM's.  If we can not see signals at that time, the
next thing we need to worry about is the timing which we do not know
how to do exactly.  Probably, John can help us for this if necessary.

Regards,
Ju

PS: Sorry for not sending earlier.  Somehow I have been having problem 
of sending my email today.