From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: n0ano@indstorage.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:27:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] lost printk's Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Nathan- I've used a Rocketport serial concentrator with a BigSur quite successfully. A single Rocketport PCI card can handle up to 32 ports. I've never had an issue with 115200 baud, I set up EFI to automatically boot Linux so I don't need to worry about running EFI over the serial line and then just tell Linux to run the serial line at 9600. On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:08:04AM -0500, Nathan Straz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:47:26PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > > If a crash kills the user space tasks or the disk I/O subsystem then > > your printk does not get to disk. Use a serial console and capture the > > output on a second machine, that goes printk() -> console drivers -> > > serial line. > > Can anyone recommend a console server that works well with Itanium > machines? The problem with most console servers (or inversely EFI) is > that they don't run at 115200 baud. Is everyone just running a line to > another PC? Is there a console server that can handle several of these > machines? > -- > Nate Straz nstraz@sgi.com > sgi, inc http://www.sgi.com/ > Linux Test Project http://ltp.sf.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 -- Don Dugger "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale n0ano@indstorage.com Ph: 303/652-0870x117