SUN: Safely removing keyboards

If you're rack mounting your systems, chances are you'll want to remove the keyboard to prevent it from dangling about. However, if you do that, the system thinks that you issued a STOP-A and acts accordingly. Question is, how to prevent that?

The answer is the kbd command

kbd [ enable | disable | alternate ]

1. enable:

   Enables the STOP-A functionality

2. disable:

   Disables the STOP-A functionality

3. alternate:

   Allows keyboard removal but leaves STOP-A working in case you need it. Sounds like this should be the default Naturally, there's some patches that need to be installed to get the alternate option working: Solaris 2.6: 105924-10 Solaris 2.7: 107589-03