SUN: Safely removing keyboards

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

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