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Subject: Re: A new twist on the reboot problems
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 15:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
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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.