New Finds

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Apr 8 06:57:26 2001

On Apr 8, 5:12, Mark Green wrote:

[ re SGI/CDC Cyber 910 keyboards]
> The cables for the keyboard are PC keyboard cables, except they
> need males connectors on both ends.

It would be more accurate to say they're LIKE PS/2 keyboard cables, except
they need a male (6-pin miniDIN) connector both ends, AND they need all 6
pins wired up. PS/2 only uses 4 wires (pins 2 and 6 are unused), and so PC
 6-pin miniDIN cables are not fully wired. Mac cables probably are.

> They won't boot without
> a keyboard, stop part way through the initial hardware check in
> the boot prom.

I was going to say that Indigos boot fine without a keyboard, using the
first serial port as console -- but in fact you have to change the PROM
settings (setenv console d, or setenv nogfxkbd 1) to do that, for which you
(initially) need a keyboard and monitor :-(

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 06:57:26 BST

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