I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the
APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA Just Works with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and apcupsd? As far
as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable, but this
one's serial and affordable but I'd like to know if it works before
refurbs off their website.
Ted
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Subject: APC UPS question
I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone
UPS question
I'm in the market for a UPS that works with FreeBSD. Does anyone
know if the
APC Back-UPS Pro 280VA Just Works with FreeBSD 4-STABLE and
apcupsd? As far
as I can tell apcupsd support for usb on FreeBSD is not reliable,
but this
one's serial and affordable but I'd like to know
I have purchased a few APC Ups's from a vendor on Ebay. Wonderful to
work with. a few weeks ago the UPS I purchased about 1 and a half
years ago had a electrical problem and the ups failed. He sent me
another unit and it arrived in just a few days. I Paid $179 for a APC
Smart 1400 RM UPS. I
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you
sure your looking at the right thing?
I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers
(420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have
serial ports only. (They
On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you
sure your looking at the right thing?
I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers
(420 and 650) of which are sitting two
:52 AM
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Cc: Robert Huff
Subject: Re: APC UPS question
On Thursday 21 October 2004 07:35, Robert Huff wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
I have a backups 280 and there is no serial port on it. Are you
sure your looking at the right thing?
I believe they have
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
incidentally with the smartups you can query the ups for the
amount of runtime left so you know how much life is left in the
battery, the ups self-tests this periodically and you can send
a command to it to do this. Very useful.
That's also true for the
Matt Navarre writes:
I believe they have the BackUPS _Pro_ 280, the larger brothers
(420 and 650) of which are sitting two feet behind me. Both have
serial ports only. (They are 5+ years old.)
Does the 650 work well with FreeBSD? I can get a refurb 650 from
APC for the same
