On Sun, 28 May 2000 10:16:28 -0400, Fran wrote:
>We sometimes lose power here with electrical storms.
>
>What situation does it have to be for it not to come back?
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Sun, 28 May 2000 11:21:48
I won't try to address the technical aspects of power lossage
induced malfunctions in the Linux system, other than to say sometimes
you get lucky, and sometimes if the disc is being written to at the
time of power failure it is corrupted.
I can however tell you how I cured my problem with the
constantly inconsistent rural power, in this thunderstorm ravaged area
of the south gulf coast of Mississippi.
Buy a uninterruptable power supply (UPS)..I got a cheap unit
from "Sam Walmart" that has batteries inside and automatically
switches the power at the instant of failure. It has the capability to
run for several minutes giving time to properly shut down.
The same unit has been running over four years and the
batteries still are able to let me ignore the short outages that occur
so often here...sometimes the only thing in the house that is lit is
the computer screen.
As I remember it was near $100 or less...$25 a year is cheap
enough for peace of mind.
Later
Olly P
Biloxi
