From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 2 13:34:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02149 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 13:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from host07.rwsystems.net (host07.rwsystems.net [209.197.192.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02140 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 13:34:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@RWSystems.net) Received: from kasie.rwsystems.net([209.197.192.103]) (2719 bytes) by host07.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:21:40 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-24) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:21:40 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Co-app Network consulting cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: APC Smart UPS Cable In-Reply-To: <368E5D4C.422D@wgn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Co-app Network consulting wrote: > Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:54:20 -0800 > From: Co-app Network consulting > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: APC Smart UPS Cable > > Does anybody know the computer interface cable pinouts for the APC > Smart UPS series? I am having trouble getting information on support > information for Unix type OSs and the cable that they are selling for > about $40.00 oly works for other OSs! it this true. This is a load of, uh, horsefeathers! They have two cables: one for simple "grunt! power gone, tarzan says shutdown soon" which uses the '232 status lines and one for advanced "You have 12.5 minutes at the current load of 677VA before I have to shutdown, sir". The advanced cable is meant for the SmartUPS(tm) hardware in conjunction with the PowerChute Plus(tm) software. It is rather cool to use. I haven't seen anything for FreeBSD, but their SCO Unix(tm) version worked fine under Linux's SCO emulation when we tired of SCO support. When we asked APC, we were told we could have the protocol if we signed a NDA, we told them we wanted to do something we could release publicly so an NDA was out of the question. We never got any protocol from them, so anything we work on isn't tainted. THe protocol isn't much different, in concept, from the Best equipment once you get the cable figured-out. I liked Best's products, but APC became more cost-effective for us. I got a cable for $5 at a local Tandy surplus store with the Novell/IPX version of PS+. We found some protocol by watching with a serial snooper and experimenting w/cu. Just go down the alphabet typing everything but 'ZZZ' and you will be fine. If you can't find a cable to ohm-out yourself, send some email and I can take one of ours loose and do it. We've done it before, but it must be in an OLD home directory somewhere because it's not new. I did find the stuff for our AST Manhattan (really a deltec in sheeps clothing, but that won't help you, sorry... There have been several folks that have made this work in the Linux crowd, so you might try looking through their archives as well. Hope this helps somewhat - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message