Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:37:38 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: emachines power off-on Message-ID: <20010909173738.C3534@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109091109050.13031-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>; from shovey@buffnet.net on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:10:02AM -0400 References: <200109090612.f896CWg34365@tao.thought.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10109091109050.13031-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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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
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