Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 04 Jun 2005 09:37:15 -0400 | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | | Subject | Re: Linux does not care for data integrity |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:00:34AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >>Unfortunately even drives in a dual power tray with redundany power from >>separate UPS sources will occasionally have a power failure. Proved that >>last month, the power strip in the rack failed, dumped all the load on >>the other leg, the surge tripped a breaker. Had an APC UPS in my office >>fail in a mode which dropped power, waited for the battery to trickle >>charge to charge the battery a bit, then repeat. Looks to be losing half >>of a full wave rectifier. >> >>The point is that power failures WILL HAPPEN, even with good backups. >>The goal should be to prevent excessive and avoidable data damage when >>it does. >> >>Shameless plug: for office use I changed from APC to Belkin on all new >>units, they have had Linux drivers for some time now, and I like to >>support those who support Linux. >> >> > >Hasn't apcupsd existed for at least a decade? Works rather well for me. >Hard to imagine better linux/unix support than APC seems to have >provided so far. > >
I thought apcuspd was a third party project, sourceforce shows it as a project. Didn't know APC was actually "providing" anything, is the driver on the CD now? Sure wasn't on the APC CD I had, I did have it at one time, but it didn't come with the UPS (at that time).
>For some reason Belkin screms cheap junk to me. Maybe that's because >that is what you always see for sale with that brand on it. They may >have nice stuff that I just haven't seen because it isn't carried by >most stores. > You don't have Staples or Wal-Mart? Office Max did drop the UPS, the local store manager said the issue was margin, hadn't had enough returns on either brand to be meaningful.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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