On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:

> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Brian Chase wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > > > Next on my wish list is to get CI working, as well as the full console
> > > > system. I want apmd working on VAX as well. :-)
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering how you would get apmd working on a system that size.  I
> > > suppose you could hook up X10 modules to the peripherals and use one of
> > > the serial ports to talk to a controller device of some sort.  That
> > > would certainly be a project.
> > 
> > The 8650 already have temp and power sensors on the console system. apmd
> > only talk through /dev/apm, so what I need to do is to write a driver that
> > works the way apmd expects, and which extracts and converts the info from
> > the 8650 console subsystem to the "proper" form.
> > 
> > Note that the power info and other stuff on the 8650 is very specific to
> > that model, and very few other VAXen have anything like it.
> > 
> Do you have the BBU option in your machine?  I had it in one 11/780
> I had.

Good question actually. I'm not sure. I have the TOY box, and that have
four 12V batteries.
However, doing a SHOW POWER says BBU ENABLED   BBU UNAVAILABLE
The LED on the backplane is lit, showing that the BBU is charged, however.

I've looked though all manuals Ihave, and can't find anything more on
this. There don't seem to be any other BBU option, but I can't find out
why it says it's unavailable.

	Johnny

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