On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:21 +0000, Pollywog wrote: > On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Josh Battles writes: [snip] > > I would have bought a UPS for my computer but I don't know of any low cost > UPS > units that are compatible with Linux.
How low is low? $ uname -a Linux haggis 2.6.13n #1 Tue Sep 20 17:30:23 CDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/apcaccess status APC : 001,034,0839 DATE : Wed Sep 21 00:21:03 CDT 2005 HOSTNAME : haggis RELEASE : 3.10.18 VERSION : 3.10.18 (21 July 2005) debian UPSNAME : XS1500 CABLE : Custom Cable Smart MODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500 UPSMODE : Stand Alone STARTTIME: Tue Sep 20 23:13:55 CDT 2005 STATUS : ONLINE LINEV : 122.0 Volts LOADPCT : 25.0 Percent Load Capacity BCHARGE : 100.0 Percent TIMELEFT : 34.2 Minutes MBATTCHG : 5 Percent MINTIMEL : 3 Minutes MAXTIME : 0 Seconds LOTRANS : 097.0 Volts HITRANS : 138.0 Volts ALARMDEL : Always BATTV : 27.1 Volts NUMXFERS : 0 TONBATT : 0 seconds CUMONBATT: 0 seconds XOFFBATT : N/A SELFTEST : NO STATFLAG : 0x02000008 Status Flag MANDATE : 2005-06-02 SERIALNO : QB0523296840 BATTDATE : 2001-09-25 NOMBATTV : 24.0 FIRMWARE : .g8 .D USB FW:g8 APCMODEL : Back-UPS RS 1500 END APC : Wed Sep 21 00:21:24 CDT 2005 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Temporarily not of Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." Andrew Tanenbaum, January 1992
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