Re: DEC Keyboard Question

From: Ken Fairfield (my.full.name_at_intel.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:44:13 -0800

John E. Malmberg wrote:

[...]
> So I will probably leave that alone. I do not have time to try a direct
> keyboard connection right now.
>
> I need to get a copy of the HP Pathworks 32 product for home use and see
> if that works.

I presume you mention Pathworks 32 because you want to try Powerterm?

> I can not get the autoscan feature to work.

Can you elaborate? I'm not clear what you mean by "autoscan".

And after reading your note on DECUServe,
http://www.encompasserve.org/DECUServe/DECnotes/VMS/3141.8 ,
I have a few other questions:

1) The basic one, with both your DS10 and PC booted and connected
    to the KVM, does the keyboard "behave properly" when you switch
    back and forth between the two systems? This would answer
    whether the switch maintains different modes on the two ports.

2) Can you "program" the switch to remember to use mode 3 on the
    DS10 port and mode 2 on the PC port?

3) You wrote, "Of course this is not a complete test, and I have not
    seen what happens during or after a reboot of either the Microsoft
    Windows 2000 or XP system, or a reboot of the DS-10." Does this
    mean each system was already booted when you connect the KVM to
    them? Have you done a "cold boot" of either one with the KVM
    connected?

4) The key question for me is the one that Christoph Gartmann
    has raised and discussed with Fred: if you boot the DS10,
    either cold, or as a "hot" reboot, does the LK461 get put
    into the correct mode for VMS?

I'm really close to purchasing one of these switches for my hobbiest
setup. :-) At present, I share the monitor and mouse via a KVM, but
I have _two keyboards_, one directly plugged into my PWS600au. I'd
like to have just one keyboard :-), but if I have to use Christoph's
fix of directly plugging a keyboard into the PWS after boot, that's
no help: it's a major pain to get at the back of the PWS to do the
plugging (the way I have things arranged), and there's NO WAY I could
get my wife to do that (she uses it more than I do, sigh...). Of, and
since the thing is pretty noisy (fans for the Alpha, eh?), the system
is shutdown most of the time, so the plugging would need to be done
every time one wanted to use the system...

        Thanks, Ken 

-- 
I don't speak for Intel, Intel doesn't speak for me...
Ken Fairfield
D1C Automation VMS System Support
who:   kenneth dot h dot fairfield
where: intel dot com

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