Douglas Wade Needham writes:
- Quoting Eric Schnoebelen (eric@cirr.com):
- > 	Sorry to take so long in responding, but I hadn't had a
- > chance to test the serial console settings on one of my 712's..
- > 
- > 	Having done so today, I can say that it does hold over
- > reboots/power-offs (as I had expected.)  Here's the output from
- > the test 712:
- 
- I am glad I have not had to go through the hassles that you 712 owners
- have had.

	Well, given that HP didn't really want to make the 712's
use a serial console, I'm not too upset.. :-)  Fortunately, the
rest of the 700 series machines can work off a serial console
just by removing their graphics card..

- > 	Hmm, I see that I should update the boot roms on this
- > machine..  The 2.3 set are available on the HP web/ftp site as a
- > patch.
- 
- I hate to sound stupid, but where are the boot ROM's located at?  I
- don't know if I can update mine, but if so, I would not mind being
- up-to-date.  Unfortunately, every time I go to HP to find something, I
- often end up wasting a fair amount of time not finding anything when I
- search for older information. 8/

	According to the information I got out of HP's `IT
Resource Center', the patches can be found at
ftp://us-ffs.external.hp.com/firmware_patches/hp/cpu/.  There is
a file called catalog in that directory that lists the patches
within, and what they are for.

	In my searching, I didn't find any patches for the
F10/807.

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	Theoretical Physicist -- a physicist whose existence has been
	    postulated, to make the numbers balance, but who is
		never actually observed in the laboratory.