Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:16:42 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: [stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS Message-ID: <14801.62266.831581.816270@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261439300.1173-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> References: <20000926172554.BF7777DF6@yellow.rahul.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261439300.1173-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> writes: Matt> I have to agree with you totally. We have a Powerware 5119RM Matt> here and as far as Price:BackupTime goes, it beats APC hands Matt> down. I'm also very happy with it's quality. I have not found Matt> software to talk to it yet, but we still like it much more than Matt> APC. Matt> Note: The Poweware 5119RM was a replacement to an APC that broke Matt> after 1.5 years of usage. I've got a few of the Powerware... both RackMount and regular. I've found them to be dependable and cost effective. They come with software for Linux that I havn't been able to get running. I contacted Powerware's technical support and they agreed to release their communications protocol under NDA to me, but then they never followed up with sending me the NDA (and I got busy with other things). The 9 pin connector on the back is _not_ serial. It does provide serial ... but not on the normal pins. There are also pins in that connector that provide simple information through contacts. I havn't tried to interface to that yet, but hooking it up to a serial port's ring signal may give some basic information for cheap. I also considered firing up the linux version on a linux box (or inside VMWare) and watching the output, but again... i've been busy. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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