Ludovic Courtès wrote: > IIRC, the machine should only forget the settings when it's unplugged. > So the machine may still be quite usable provided you don't unplug it > too often.
Or an extended power outage with UPS shutdown :-/ Interestingly, I've seen one failure which was on an Ultra-1. I've not seen a SPARCstation or SPARCserver fail, although I've had to rescue password-protected chips using a device programmer. I've not got time to check but it would be interesting to know whether more recent devices (8K rather than 2K?) take more current. Another interesting point is that these devices have a bit which stops the clock hence reducing consumption for long-term storage. I don't think there's an OpenPROM command for this although it might be possible to hack the required bit-twiddling. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
