Actually, the keyboard has a buzzer in it which beeps at power up.  If
you have a keyboard, the keyboard provides the beeps, on all Sparc desktop
workstations.  No keyboard, no beep.  This is true for 1, 2, ipc, ipx, slc,
elc, SS4, SS5, SS10, and SS20.
-Brian

On Mar 31,  6:03pm, Todd Vierling wrote:
} Subject: Re: Sparc2 problems part II
} On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Kyle Mestery wrote:
} 
} : Sparc2, headless with a vt100 terminal on ttya.  32MB of RAM, 1 internal
} : SCSI disk, 2 external SCSI disks.  The Sparc is powered on and after 5
} : seconds, I get a "WARNING: Cannot determine keyboard type" on the serial
} : console.  After that, nothing.
} 
} How long did you wait?  You should wait about 30-45 seconds for the boot
} messages to come up.  This is after the keyboard notice.  (I have a SS2 with
} precisely the same setup.)
} 
} :  Now, if I recall correctly, when you turn
} : a Sparc2 on, shouldn't it beep right away?
} 
} No.  IIRC, only the Sparc4 and later models did the power-on beep.
} 
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