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

[Magnus Nilsson]

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 12:25, 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.
> 

Yes. I saw that in a copy of Linux Journal, I think it was. I can't
remember what it's called either though...
Search the LJ archives?

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