On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:06:15PM +0000, The Fungi wrote:
> You will find the same behavior with many Openfirmware-based
> machines. When most serial terminals are powered down they send a
> break signal. The host's firmware intercepts this and drops to the
> firmware prompt. The dirty fix is to always unplug the serial cable
> prior to powering off your terminal. The best fix is to read the
> terminal's manual and figure out how to disable the
> break-on-disconnect feature. I can't count the number of times I
> have accidentally halted these sorts of servers in years gone by.
A break in electrical senses is just a overlong 1 or 0 ?!? - can't
remember. So when powering down the terminals voltages just drop to
something undefined when powering down. A break can also be
generating by just pressing space on 300bps - which will be a break at
9600bps.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Heisenberg may have been here.
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