[Info-vax] COM1, MMJ and 9-pin connector on a AS-800.

[JF Mezei]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> reach the console over the network. Now, the manual talkes
> about the 9-pin connected as a remote connection to the
> RMC (Remote Management Console), which is, as far as I
> understand, not exactly the RMS (">>>") console, right ?

On an Alpha DS10L:

COM1:

RMC>power on

256 Meg of system memory
probing hose 0, PCI
probing PCI-to-ISA bridge, bus 1
bus 0, slot 9 -- ewa -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 11 -- ewb -- DE500-BA Network Controller
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqa -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 13 -- dqb -- Acer Labs M1543C IDE
bus 0, slot 17 -- vga -- Radeon 7500 PCI
initializing GCT/FRU at ff40000
Testing the System
Testing the Disks (read only)
Testing ew* devices.
System Temperature is 27 degrees C
Executing NVRAM commands...
Change mode to FAST Full Duplex.
environment variable boot_mode created
End of NVRAM commands...

AlphaServer DS10L 466 MHz Console V7.2-1, Jun  9 2006 15:57:00
>>>
>>> <esc><esc>RMC
RMC>
RMC> exit
RMC>quit

Returning to COM port
MC: No such command
>>>

In other words, you can switch back and forth between the RMC and
whatever COM1 is. (I think you can do that even when the system is
booted and you are logged into VMS as a user via that com port).