From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 8:29: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (mail0.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2005314CA7 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 08:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-69-140.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.69.140]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24918; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:28:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA81489; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:30:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199905251530.LAA81489@bellsouth.net> To: Terry Glanfield Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Thomas David Rivers , wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: console terminal server and power loss In-reply-to: Your message of "25 May 1999 14:45:46 BST." Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:30:58 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I may be wrong, but I thought a on an RS/232 was a 25ms > > drop in the +5v line. When the power goes out, that will be the > > case... so, you get your break. There's not much you can do > > about that... > > That's what I suspected. Do you know which line the +5v is and wether > it is constantly +5. It sounds ugly but maybe I could hold it steady > with a small battery. RS232 isn't 5 volts, It swings from -12 to +12 although the 'spec' allows for a wide tolerance. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message