RE: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Zrin
Seconded. acpupsd works fine on an AMD64 system. true. follow the debian readme. first test how your ups reacts to -killpower. new APC devices have killpower delay, and in that case you should send the killpower command in the doshutdown event in apccontrol - you have to add one line as

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
two dual amd6a opterons, driven by amd64 debian. I have been offered in my country (Italy) APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA (at a price 219 euros, more than twice the price in USA 120$). The price difference is standard here. It does not reflect the difference of taxation

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:14:59PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot to mention that for my two amd64 dual opterons set the transformer is 600W. Would the 540W of APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA be enough? The 1000W model is priced 470 euros in Italy. Well a system is amost never using the

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Len: Thanks for all information. I forgot two possible problems: it deals of a workstation for very heavy computation (quantum mechanical), not a server. Although I'll benefit of full property (not having to share cpu time with colleagues, such as in the institution) it will be at the very

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:29:09PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I forgot two possible problems: it deals of a workstation for very heavy computation (quantum mechanical), not a server. Although I'll benefit of full property (not having to share cpu time with colleagues, such as in the

APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
in my country (Italy) APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA (at a price 219 euros, more than twice the price in USA 120$). The price difference is standard here. It does not reflect the difference of taxation in the two countries, importation duties, and shipping expenses

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-13 Thread Antti Pyykko
On Sat, 13 May 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: I have been offered in my country (Italy) APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA [ snip ] Has anyone experience with this (or other equipment to the same purpose) for the type on installation of my project? I am using that very

Re: APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA

2006-05-13 Thread Jo Shields
Antti Pyykko wrote: On Sat, 13 May 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: I have been offered in my country (Italy) APC (American Power Conversion) APC BACK-UPS RS 800VA [ snip ] Has anyone experience with this (or other equipment to the same purpose) for the type on installation of my project