Re: MGE UPS and HP DDS4.

[Jean-Philippe Guérard]

Le 2000-07-24 08:59:12 +0200, Magnus Hultin écrivait :
 The UPS is an MGE Pulsar ESV 11+. I tried the software
 that came with it and the newer version available on MGE's
 homepage. I also tried mgeupsd and apcupsd (hoping the
 UPS would be APC-compatible). None of the programs managed
 to communicate with the UPS, however.
 Could this perhaps be a problem with the serial port that's
 not working as it should?

I've been able to use the MGE Personal Solution Pac
(from http://www.mgeups.com) without any problem.

Do you get an error message when you try to run psp -start ?

Might be a serial port problem.

-- 
Jean-Philippe Guérard

MGE UPS and HP DDS4.

[Magnus Hultin]

Hi,

I've been trying to get a potato install to use these two
pieces of hardware, with varying degrees of success. Has
anyone used them successfully?

The UPS is an MGE Pulsar ESV 11+. I tried the software
that came with it and the newer version available on MGE's
homepage. I also tried mgeupsd and apcupsd (hoping the
UPS would be APC-compatible). None of the programs managed
to communicate with the UPS, however.
Could this perhaps be a problem with the serial port that's
not working as it should?

The tape drive is a HP C5683 (as reported by the SCSI BIOS)
and works fine under certain circumstances. I was going to
use dump/restore or possibly even straight tar unto the
tape, but both of these methods - tho managing to write
part of the file to tape - give sense data errors and
bail out after about 400 blocks written.
I did manage to backup and restore a small filesystem
using taper without getting any errors. What's taper doing
that the other programs aren't?


/Hultin