Subject: Re: multia firmware problem
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Isaacson <adisaacs@mtu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/17/1999 13:39:14
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 09:52:59AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> On 17-May-99 Wim Vandeputte spoke unto us all:
> #  One of the causes I found was somebody using a serial -> ps/2 converter
> #  for his mouse, thus 'breaking' (blowing?) something inside the machine.
> 
> Actually I read somewhere (perhaps the DEC manual for the Multia) that you
> should *never* hook up a non PS2 device to the multia.  That includes PC
> keyboards with the little converters, and serial mice with them..

I didn't see anything like that in my quick scan through my Multia
Service Information manual (EK-MULTS-IN.C01).  Maybe I'm looking in
the wrong place, though...

-andy
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