From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 11:42: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E1DF37B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1191 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Sep 2000 18:41:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Sep 2000 18:41:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:41:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. UPS In-Reply-To: <20000926172554.BF7777DF6@yellow.rahul.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Rahul Dhesi wrote: : I recommend against APC UPSs for three reasons: short battery life, : poor quality control (sometimes they fail after 2-3 months of use), and : refusal to provide specifications for control of the UPS (thus no : support for open software). I have to agree with you totally. We have a Powerware 5119RM here and as far as Price:BackupTime goes, it beats APC hands down. I'm also very happy with it's quality. I have not found software to talk to it yet, but we still like it much more than APC. Note: The Poweware 5119RM was a replacement to an APC that broke after 1.5 years of usage. : Rahul * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE50O3mdMMtMcA1U5ARAmsdAJ9HOLBuNL5BDw8yr9ImywzJ1MB9vgCfauF4 5DgnynJmhykHC9HAkfCUAqA= =8nRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message