Subject: RE: Console power off >>>
To: 'port-vax@NetBSD.ORG' <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Yuri N.Gaystruk <yuri@aokzts.e-burg.ru>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/18/1997 18:30:43
Yes! I have found this switch and turn it off.
All is right now.
Thanks.
Yuri
>
>Allison J Parent drunkenly mumbled...
>>
>> It is a vax hardware thing. If you power down the terminal it is the same
>> as sending "break" and if enabled the vax will interrupt to the console
>>boot
>
>this is the behaivor of sun hardware as well.
>
>> rom. Most vaxen have a switch or jumpers on the cpu card to disable that
>> feature.
>
>however sun hardware doesn't have that switch. if you don't have this switch
>on your particular vax then i can look up the bypass method which involves
>a resistor across the correct two pins it will disable this. my guess is this
>is pretty much what the switch Allison is talking about does.
>
>-brian
>
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