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- From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Booting errors on 3B2/400
- Message-ID: <697@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 02:06:32 GMT
- References: <712432060snx@poverty.UUCP> <691@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US> <1992Aug12.050031.7133@robohack.UUCP>
- Organization: Steve's Personal machine / Tustin, CA
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- I write:
- > I have never seen any piece of UNIX that touches the diagnostics
- > LED, and I think that it just goes on when the machine shuts down
- > in any kind of abnormal way (i.e., the rest button). It does NOT
- > mean that something is wrong.
-
- Greg Woods writes:
- > It's been some time, but I can attest that indeed the diagnostic
- > light is turned on by system panics.
-
- Yes, but not by UNIX. It's the monitor that detects that UNIX just
- died that turns it on. What I meant to say (but did poorly) is that
- you'll never see the diagnostics light come on while UNIX stays
- running. The green one, however, is under program control and you
- can even play with it with shell scripts :-)
-
- Stephen
-
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