Hi folks,
Anyone here have any experience with Serial (DB9) to USB converters? Do they just work - and can you specify any old baud, XON / XOFF, etc settings as you can with a normal serial port? I want to use them with console cables for some old Sun SPARC boxes I have lying around... Details below if anyone cares.
As a part of my day job I work with a product that only works on Sun SPARC boxes and I've decided to set up my own 'dev' environment using a few cheap old Sun boxes. I bought 3 x V100s on ebay and have stuffed them into a hacked PC Tower using 3 x Pico PSUs connected to 1 standard PC PSU. Now these are headless boxes and the only way to start them - in the hacked up case - is via the LOM connections - a serial management (Lights Out Management) connection. Ideally I'd like to leave everything plugged in on a permanent basis so I can easily start them up and shut them down at the end of the day more for noise and heat than electricity costs / green concerns - the original PSUs for each V100 were only rated at 80W max each.
Thanks in advance...


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