Ross Boylan said: > I have some more info, and it's pretty weird. APC says, and my > experience seems to confirm it, that you need a different serial cable for > Unixy systems than Windows. And if you want to dual boot, well, that's > just too bad.
I remember a similar problem on a BackUPS pro I had a few years ago. APC Powerchute worked fine in "smart" mode in win32, but not in linux. After much testing with various linux UPS tools(one of which I got working in smart mode ~20% of the time) I called APC and they told me something similar, and sent me another cable free(the black smart cable that usually comes with SmartUPSs), no problems after that. though I never had it shut off immediately on power failure. I still have my old backUPS 400, but it's had a dead battery for 4 years, haven't gotten around to replacing it. Gave my BackUPS pro to a friend 2 years ago.. while APC's products are expensive I've always been blown away by their technical support(very smart & responsive in my experience same goes for Sun and Cisco) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
