Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Douglas Ambrisko <ambrisko@tcsi.com> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: johang@algonet.se, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new twist on the reboot problems Message-ID: <199607262225.PAA19772@cozumel.tcs.com> In-Reply-To: <199607262028.PAA18823@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 26, 96 03:28:05 pm
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Joe Greco writes: | | With a little work, the box hosting consmgr could be outfitted with | reset-button outputs for the other boxes, or power controls, etc. | That would not be out-of-the-box technology (although you COULD use xtend | if you were desperate for a quick solution).. At a prior company we wired DTR on com1 to the PC reset. The circuit consisted of a diode and resister. We even hacked a header so it could be pluging in-line of the serial port and reset line so the reset and serial port were still usable. (the only side effect is that we had it connected to a DEC Alpha which toggled DTR when OSF booted ... this actually turned out to be a nice feature for the project). | UNIX: the flexibility to leverage off of an apparently unrelated set of | powerful tools to do something cool. Yep. Doug A.
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