At 9:03 AM +0000 2003/11/04, Tim Cutts wrote: >On 03-Nov-03, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: >> >> Can I ask why you need this? Do you change or access the BIOS >> frequently? (Not criticizing, just inquiring). > >Not frequently, but having to do it just once can be real pain. I have >nearly 200 Pentium IV blades here. Would you enjoy getting onto the >KVM console of each one individually to configure HyperThreading? >HyperThreading is the one thing where we *do* want to changeit quite >frequently. For some applications, such as MySQL servers, >HyperThreading helps. For others it doesn't, so you want to be able to >configure this automatically, without having to mess about with KVM >consoles. Odd, our IBM x345 BIOSes are fully serial-friendly (once it's turned on), and I assumed the BladeCenters were as well-behaved. Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>