Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:29:17 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu>, <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: support for happy lights on PC? Message-ID: <008a01c19a15$7a0197c0$6600000a@ach.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0201100951120.239-100000@hpux27.dc.engr.scu.edu>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dorr H. Clark > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:56 PM > To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org > Subject: support for happy lights on PC? > > Hi- > > Is there any support for happy lights > on PC hardware in FreeBSD? > > The purpose would be to implement a watchdog timer > interrupt routine, which would keep the light lit > so if the routine didn't run at all and/or > detected some bad system condition the light > would either change color or go out. > > If additional hardware is needed, that's OK, > the only purpose of the question is to avoid > inventing this from scratch if the work already exists. > > This is for a system where disk traffic is > not a significant measure of system health. This may not be of much help, but if you could get ahold of an older ALR Revolution Q-4SMP machine, I think you'd be half-way home. Those old boxes lit up like Christmas trees, long string of lights indicating things like ISA bus interrupts, EISA bus interrupts, memory usage, disk usage, etc. Or, perhaps another way might be to find a NIC that has a connector for an external activity light and just have the machine ping out or another machine ping in on a continual basis. Given the speed of most LAN hardware anymore, that shouldn't be a significant hit, performance wise. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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