At 10:41 PM -0500 2/10/01, der Mouse wrote:
>Oh, it powers down fine.  It's just that with the button in the
>locked-in position, it powers back up more or less immediately (perhaps
>a second or two after powering down, definitely <5sec delay).

I have a IIcx (same power supply) and it powers back up after a 
second or two regardless of the lock position.  In other words the 
feature is broken and it's stuck in the "server" mode.  This is fine 
for me since that's how I want it, now.

It was pretty weird while it was failing because we kept finding the 
machine on when it shouldn't have been.  I even falsely accused my 
5-year old daughter of doing stuff she shouldn't have.  Then it 
started up while I was sitting across the room from it.

At 8:14 PM -0800 2/10/01, Daniel Parks wrote:
>At 5:18 AM -0800 2/10/2001, Tom Spindler wrote:
>>If you push in the round power button in the back and rotate it 90
>>degrees, it'll stay pushed in - and have the machine turn back on
>>after power loss.
>
>Would this work on a Q650?
>
>More generally, where can one get information as to whether or not 
>their machine has such a feature?
>
>Yeah, yeah, I know I could just *try* it, but that would be too 
>easy... and anyway, I don't like to turn it off, as it serves as a 
>router, mail server, file server...

Not so much try as look.  If you have a pushbutton power switch then 
it will either have the screwdriver slot and work as above. . . or it 
will be a simple pushbutton and you can use the Energy Saver control 
panel advanced settings (or server options or whatever) to tell it to 
automatically power on after a power failure.  You set this option 
under MacOS but the chip configuration holds.

The other possibility is the actual physical power switch that the 
SE/30 has.  I think that's the only machine NetBSD will run on that 
is that simple though.


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