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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Dell 325 serial port?
Message-ID: <2669@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 90 18:50:37 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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  We have a number of Dell 325 systems running UNIX. It seems that these
has a "smart" serial port which disables itself on boot if you have
another serial port. It also disables itself on warm boot if you are
running UNIX and have a getty on the port when the system shuts down.

  Does anyone have a program which will turn the port back on without a
power cycle? Dell has been sympathetic but not helpful. They don't have
the program, they can't send me the spec, etc.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.