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SUN: Safely removing keyboards
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:Title:        SUN: Safely removing keyboards
:Author:       Douglas O'Leary <dkoleary@olearycomputers.com>
:Description:  SUN: Safely removing keyboards
:Date created: 08/2001
:Date updated: 09/2001
:Disclaimer:   Standard: Use the information that follows at your own risk.  If you screw up a system, don't blame it on me...

If you're rack mounting your systems, chances are you'll want to remove the 
keyboard to prevent it from dangling about. However, if you do that, the 
system thinks that you issued a STOP-A and acts accordingly. Question is, how 
to prevent that?

The answer is the kbd command 

:command:`kbd [ enable | disable | alternate ]`

    enable: Enables the STOP-A functionality
    disable: Disables the STOP-A functionality
    alternate: Allows keyboard removal but leaves STOP-A working in case you need it. Sounds like this should be the default

Naturally, there's some patches that need to be installed to get the 
alternate option working:

*   Solaris 2.6: 105924-10
*   Solaris 2.7: 107589-03