From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 17:37:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F9237B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f8A0bdO36612; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:37:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Stephen Hovey Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Message-ID: <20010909173738.C3534@tao.thought.org> References: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:10:02AM -0400 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:10:02AM -0400, Stephen Hovey wrote: > > There is a setting in the bios to have it not power down. > > There is a surge safety feature that does require a power cord pull and > push to get the power back on.. because after an outage sometimes power > remains flaky for several minutes. > The surge safety feature is wise because having the power glich off, then (2 seconds later) *on* fried a 9GB SCSI drive a couple years ago! I'm all for any well-engineered and well-thought-out idea.... so long as it doesn't slow me down too much. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message