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From: kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: DSP90 shutdown?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 12:54:00 GMT
References: <9008141319.AA01043@richter.mit.edu> <1578@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
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In article <1578@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>, dente@els.ee.man.ac.uk (Colin Dente) writes:
|> In article <9008141319.AA01043@richter.mit.edu>
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
|> >node, but I have not been able to get the shutdown button
|> >to work.
|> >...Could someone
|> >run through their DSP90 handbook and tell me if our shutdown
|> >button is broken, or whether I'm just misusing it? (we're
|> >running SR9.7 on a DSP90-3MB with two MSD-500M disks).
|> Ye Gods! that's the second time I've referred to that book in the past
|> three weeks.  Come to think of it, that's the second time I've
|> referred to that book ever!
|> Well, according to Operating the DSP80A/DSP90 (revision 1 November '85)
|> you just press the button, though I would say that on my 80A (I don't
|> need no steenking 68020!) you do have to hold the button pressed for
|> about a second before the thing will shutdown.
|> 

I believe that is exactly it;  you are required to hold the shutdown
button(s) down
for a short while for then to take effect, to avoid un-intended shutdowns.

Jim Kumorek
Apollo Computer, Inc. - A subsidiary of Hewlett Packard
kumorek@apollo.hp.com