[1361] in SIPB-AFS-requests
VRC16 monitors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 11 23:36:09 1994
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
To: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, rtfm-maintainers@MIT.EDU, charon-maintainers@MIT.EDU,
usenet@MIT.EDU, anxiety-maintainers@MIT.EDU
Cc: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 23:35:39 EDT
It has been suggested that we move some of the VRC16 (Maxine) monitors
off of servers and into the office. Since I think I understand the
issues, and no one else has sent mail I am.
There are 2 options:
1) leave some number of monitors in the machine to be shared among the
servers
note: each cpu would need to keep it's keyboard in order to boot
disadvantage: requires physical plugging and unplugging of monitor cables
advantage: allows stacking of servers to save table space
2) obtain serial monitors (vt{100,220,240}, etc.) and use those.
note: must remove the kbd &mouse to get the serial monitor to work
disadvantage: no (known) way to halt the CPU from the serial kbd
I suggest that if we want to bring VRC16's into the office (I
understand that anxiety's is already there) we use plan 1. After the
summer server upgrades we could have the AFS servers share a monitor
and anxeity and foo share a monitor.
What do people think?
Jonathon
