From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 27 6:16:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD12F37B424 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper204.velocet.net [204.138.45.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CB3137F24; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA41237; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:16:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14801.62266.831581.816270@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:16:42 -0400 (EDT) To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: [stable] Re: Freebsd vs. UPS In-Reply-To: References: <20000926172554.BF7777DF6@yellow.rahul.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Heckaman 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