Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: API for environmental sensors
To: None <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath <eeh@one-o.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/10/1999 08:21:09
Matt Jacobs wrote:

> I'd also like to point out that SES/SAF-TE provide also provides *control*
> functions as well as monitoring functions. You can command leds on/off,
> prepare for insertion/removal, etc. Each device type has device specific
> values (like temp for thermometers, voltage for power supplies, SCSI ID
> for disk drives...).

Control operations are also applicable and useful on some non-SCSI
devices.  Most of Sun's more recent machines can have sets of, and in
certain cases individual components powered on and off.

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