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CHAPTER 4: Operation
4. Operation
You can turn on your PCs one at a time or all at once. The green LEDs over each
port letter on the Personal ServSwitch will light, indicating that the attached
computer is powered on. After power-up, the Switch will light the amber LED of
the currently selected port. Other PCs may now be selected for operation, as
detailed in
Section 4.1
. You can also scan the PCs, as shown in
Section 4.2
, or enter
other commands (see the
Appendix
).
4.1 Selecting PCs
There are two ways to select a PC on the Personal ServSwitch. One way is with the
CPU Select pushbutton. Pressing this selects the next computer in sequence; for
example, if you are currently interacting with the PC on Port B, pressing CPU Select
switches to the PC on Port C. The other way of selecting ports is by entering a short
sequence of keystrokes on the keyboard. This is called keyboard, or hotkey, switching.
Press the Control key twice within one second to place your Personal ServSwitch
in Command Mode. Your keyboard LEDs (Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock)
will flash to verify that you are operating in Command Mode. Now, whatever you
type will be interpreted as Personal ServSwitch system commands until you press
[Enter] to accept the command or [Esc] (escape) to cancel.
Once you’re in Command Mode, type the letter(s) corresponding to the port
address of the PC you wish to select. (The port address will be one letter if you are
using a single Switch, two letters if you’re using two tiers of Switches, and so on,
because you need to specify which port each successive expansion unit is on before
you specify the actual PC port.) For example:
[CTRL][CTRL] C [ENTER]
Selects the PC on Port C.
[CTRL][CTRL] B [ENTER]
Selects the PC on Port B.
[CTRL][CTRL] AB [ENTER]
Selects the expansion unit on the base unit’s
Port A, then the PC on the expansion unit’s
Port B.
[CTRL][CTRL] D [ESCAPE]
(When [ESCAPE] is pressed, command in
progress is aborted. Currently selected port
remains selected.)
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