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

[Simon Trimmer]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, David Damerell wrote:
> 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.

It's the PCWeasel PCI http://www.realweasel.com

They are pricey - I have two and wrote the linux watchdog driver for them,
they have some nice features but are pretty useless for kernel debugging
(their processor stalls when in kdb)

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>



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