At 5:40 AM +0000 8/23/04, John Klos wrote:
>>>Ah. I suspect this is a case of my remembering the functionality being
>>>present in the Quadra machines, but it having a different mechanism
>>>depending on the model. I know for certain that the Quadra 700 
>>>(and it's IIci
>>>predecessor), the Quadra 800, and at least the first year of IIsi machines
>>>had the rotatable power button-- use of those models was a requirement
>>>for the Apple Internet Router servers I installed a plethora of back in
>>>those days. :-) (As was Macsbug with an "auto-reboot" config... ;-)
>
>Does anyone know what the OF setting is for this? It'd be nice; I've 
>already had one powerdown without powerup on a colocated 9600 - made 
>me wonder if I should just plug in an ADB keyboard and put a fat 
>rubber band around it which holds down the power button...
>
>I suppose the next time I have some time, I'll dump OF settings, 
>boot OS 9 and set the auto-power, dump again, and compare, unless 
>someone already knows...

I doubt that it is an OpenFirmware setting at all, but rather just a 
PRAM setting affecting power manager. It is just a guess, but my 
reasonings are:

1) It isn't in printenv

2) It predates OpenFirmware (and PowerPC)

3) Most importantly, OpenFirmware isn't running until the machine is 
turned on...chicken & egg kinda thing there

I'd certainly be happy to be shown wrong there though :)

Mike
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