Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:11:22 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: starrtennis@gmail.com Cc: pathiaki2@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: UPS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <54791d3a.w/pI0kak03d%2B3nKC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <CABhTyc9m7fOoeV170dj=foAhmyYWphzc8KD8wBacu5gNRPhT%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHieY7QGp2ELF-R91eu=vSrPsimVmVNJQ4kfucQ56PR7EEZmig@mail.gmail.com> <m57qdq$did$1@ger.gmane.org> <54777AB1.9010800@bluerosetech.com> <m581p1$65m$1@ger.gmane.org> <54779629.302@bluerosetech.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411271433320.60866@wonkity.com> <5478BD4F.7020306@yahoo.com> <5478BEE6.30308@bluerosetech.com> <5478CC08.9090307@yahoo.com> <20141128204722.561f948e@archlinux> <5478F16A.80605@yahoo.com> <CABhTyc9m7fOoeV170dj=foAhmyYWphzc8KD8wBacu5gNRPhT%2BQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Mike Starr <starrtennis@gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't thought too much about this either, but how much does > power supply have to do with which os one uses? If you are only using the UPS to cover for outages from momentary up to a few seconds, not much. However, if you want the UPS to notify the OS when the battery starts to get low, so that the OS can shut down cleanly, you need for the OS to support whatever communication mechanism the UPS provides.
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