From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 11:07:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CAC16A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:07:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3835343D46 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:07:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k1MB7Mu50998; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Donald J. O'Neill" , "Chuck Swiger" Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:07:21 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <200602211047.24449.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Importance: Normal Cc: manish jain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:07:39 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Donald J. >O'Neill >Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:47 AM >To: Chuck Swiger >Cc: manish jain; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD > > > >Then, thats got to be a really old, old one. I've been working (playing >with actually) with computers since the color computer. I won't admit >to anything further back than that. I've never seen one that didn't >have some means of communication (monitoring). Not from APC anyway. > APC has made a lot of older BackUPSs that didn't have the com port that date back to the Color Computer days, you just wern't paying attention. For example the BackUPS 200VA (that unit was discontinued years ago) didn't have one, neither did the BackUPS 250 and 300 VA units from that era. (all of those are discontinued) However the models that didn't have the com port back in the olden days, were all very low, low VA units, under 350VA. It wasn't until modern times that APC decided to screw it all up. Ted