On 04-Nov-03, Chris Pepper wrote: > 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. The BladeCenters don't have a serial port. :-) Tim -- Dr Tim Cutts Informatics Systems Group Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK