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From: mike@raven.bv.tek.com (Michael Ewan)
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Subject: Re: ULTRIX on VAXstation II/GPX
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Date: 11 May 91 17:10:01 GMT
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In article <1991May9.190639.25124@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, melanie@director.beckman.uiuc.edu (Melanie Anderson) writes:

|> from the 'qd' man page:
|> 
|>      If there is a VCB02 module at the standard address, the sys-
|>      tem will use it as the system console.  All input/output
|>      destined for /dev/console will use the VCB02 instead.
|> 
|> so you can call it anything you want because you have to make the device
|> yourself with mknod:


Except that you also need to remove the VCB02 card set from the machine entirely.
Maybe that's what you implied.  If the system sees the VCB02 at boot it will use 
it for the console, and the 9-pin port will be dead.

Mike

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