[Gllug] Hardware recommendation, esp. SANs and shared storage

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 9 Aug 2002, Huw Lynes wrote:
>On Friday 09 August 2002 09:13, Tethys wrote:
>>. All I want it is a proper serial console. I shouldn't need an extra 
>>card, drivers and windows software for that :-(
>What do you mean by "a proper serial console"?

There's a device made as a PCI card that pretends to be a video card
and plugs into the keyboard port also with a serial port on the back
that provides a 'proper' serial console for PCs - ie, one that one can
interrogate the BIOS from and everything thereafter. But I forget what
it's called, gah.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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