Just going to reply to this one bit for now: The computer used to be a gaming
computer, converted this past fall into a file server when I lacked time to
play any games in a year.
>> Additionally I spent $34 on a video card today that reduces my power
>> consumption by 150Watts, resulting in a
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 323, Issue 9, Message: 3
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:18:01 -0500 Ryan Coleman wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> > On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> >> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minute
On Thu, August 12, 2010 8:14 pm, Al Plant wrote:
>> #3. Thats why setting the bios "not" to self boot would work. (Stopping
>> the bios from turning the server on after an outage.) Someone would have
>> to check the power status manually before throwing the switch manually
>> to make it come up aft
Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote:
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give
On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:49 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the server at,
>> say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the process and runs out
>> of battery mid-way through t
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
Yes. The downside comes from when the BIOS is told to turn on the
server at, say, 10pm and the power is still out... it starts the
process and runs out of battery mid-way through the boot before it
gets the chance to load the UPS controller.
On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Al Plant wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>>
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Ryan Coleman wrote:
> > He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on
> > a 1400VA.
>
> That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant,
> because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery.
> Those numbers only give an upper lim
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:01 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>
On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:18 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>>> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minu
Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on
> a 1400VA.
That W and VA numbers of the UPS are pretty much irrelevant,
because they tell nothing about the capacity of the battery.
Those numbers only give an upper limit on the power that
the UPS can han
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:06 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
>> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery.
>> If full power has not been returned, shu
On Wed, August 11, 2010 12:25 pm, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> He thinks that at 500W needed it would give me about 12 minutes on a
> 1400VA. My consideration is, then, give the server 2 minutes on battery.
> If full power has not been returned, shut down the server but leave the
> modem (w/ wireless) and
Thanks, Chuck.
I talked with a former colleague that has a lot of experience in specing out
UPS requirements (between battery-ready and generator-ready backups at the
office they have up to 5 minutes of battery backup before the gas generator is
needed with a 128-hour recharge time just to supp
Hi, Ryan--
On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> Total: 495W
>
> According to a calculator if I enter all that information:
> http://www.csgnetwork.com/upssizecalc.html
> It says that it will use 693VA.
That sounds reasonable. The better PSUs have "80 Plus" certification for
effic
Octavian Ionescu wrote:
> hi,
>
> i have received an Gembird UPS 1200 VA for one of the servers and i am
> trying to get it work. The main problem is that the cd came with a
> compiled aplication for linux and with linux_base-fc8 installed it
> does not detect it.
> the apcupsd does not recognize i
Hello,
2008/2/18, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > /dev/ad3s1d/backup ufs rw 2 2
> >
> > ad3s1d is a USB hard drive. It is normally unmounted and I think it
>
> so add noauto after rw
Thanks! A lot!
--
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/dev/ad3s1d/backup ufs rw 2 2
ad3s1d is a USB hard drive. It is normally unmounted and I think it
so add noauto after rw
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On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:18:56 Ivan Carey wrote:
Hello,
How do I setup FreeBSD 6.2 to allow a UPS to shutdown a system via a USB
port.
I may be using a Powerware UPS, I'm not sure which one yet.
Thanks,
Ivan
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Ivan Carey wrote:
> Hello,
> How do I setup FreeBSD 6.2 to allow a UPS to shutdown a system via a
> USB port.
>
> I may be using a Powerware UPS, I'm not sure which one yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
>
As others said, if you get an APC then apcupsd works flawlessly. I am
using it myself on both Linux and
On Sunday 24 June 2007 07:18:56 Ivan Carey wrote:
> Hello,
> How do I setup FreeBSD 6.2 to allow a UPS to shutdown a system via a USB
> port.
>
> I may be using a Powerware UPS, I'm not sure which one yet.
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
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On Jun 24, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Ivan Carey wrote:
Hello,
How do I setup FreeBSD 6.2 to allow a UPS to shutdown a system via
a USB port.
I may be using a Powerware UPS, I'm not sure which one yet.
I use the apcupsd port in sysutils. I'm not sure whether it supports
your Powerware UPS thoug
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:21:59 -0500,
> Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
>> I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but
>> I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS.
> I've never done it, but I belie
bject: Re: UPS advice, please ...
Hello Kiffin,
Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:20:08 PM, you wrote:
I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to
protect them
against power outages.
These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
some way to do a power
Second the motion -- nut works well with the APC ups's
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cezar Fistik
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 10:05 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: UPS advice
Hello Kiffin,
Friday, November 18, 2005, 10:20:08 PM, you wrote:
> I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them
> against power outages.
> These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
> some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has tim
On Nov 19, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote:
And which one do you recommend?
I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and
another
clone anthlon-xp 300W.
Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these tw
>
>
> On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Kiffin Gish wrote:
>
> > And which one do you recommend?
> >
> > I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and
> > another
> > clone anthlon-xp 300W.
> >
> > Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two
> > machines?
>
>
And which one do you recommend?
I have two mini-towers, one an old dell dimension 650R 200W and
another
clone anthlon-xp 300W.
Do I need two UPS or can I get one which can service these two
machines?
Both run FreeBSD 5.4.
The way these daemons work is that after a certain time-out while o
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
> I have never used the UPS daemons so don't know how they work but
> I doubt they are made to work with multiples on the UPS.
I've never done it, but I believe this is quite possible with
apcupsd.
Robert Huff
reebsd.org
Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ...
I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect
them
against power outages.
These are two simple machines running at home so nothing
fancy. Just
some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time
to clean
up.
What do
> -Original Message-
> From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 21:41
> To: Kiffin Gish; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: UPS advice, please ...
>
>
> >I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD
>
I meant to put the URL in the last message even though it is a bit obvious:
http://www.apcc.com/
It will even talk to you in Dutch if you prefer.
jerry
> I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them
> against power outages.
>
> These are two simple m
>
> I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them
> against power outages.
>
> These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
> some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up.
>
> What do I need and where can I look for mo
I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect
them
against power outages.
These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean
up.
What do I need and where can I look for more detailed i
Kiffin Gish wrote:
I have a couple web servers running FreeBSD 5.x and need to protect them
against power outages.
These are two simple machines running at home so nothing fancy. Just
some way to do a power down neatly so the shutdown has time to clean up.
What do I need and where can I look fo
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am not looking for anything extraordinary. Just something, that can
gracefully shut down my system if I lose power. An occurrence that
transpires habitually in the northeast USA when I reside,
Your bog-standard APC brand plus sysutils/apcupsd por
Chuck Swiger writes:
> > I am not looking for anything extraordinary. Just something, that can
> > gracefully shut down my system if I lose power. An occurrence that
> > transpires habitually in the northeast USA when I reside,
>
> Your bog-standard APC brand plus sysutils/apcupsd port wo
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I am not looking for anything extraordinary. Just something, that can
gracefully shut down my system if I lose power. An occurrence that
transpires habitually in the northeast USA when I reside,
Your bog-standard APC brand plus sysutils/apcupsd port works fine for me for
Gerard Seibert wrote:
I have FreeBSD 5.4 running on an older Compaq computer. I was
wondering if someone could recommend a suitable UPS. I tried
googling around, but mostly I found posts regarding problems
that users had getting UPS to work dependably with FreeBSD.
I am not looking for anything
Thanks to all. Now we getin' somewhere
Per the link provided by Robert, I did the followings:
1) re-compile/install the kernel by hashing the uhid device.
# deviceuhid # "Human Interface Devices"
2) reboot the system to launch/verify (uname -a) the newer kernel
3) deinstall apcupsd w
Chris Howells writes:
> > 1) apcupsd does not currently support USB connections for
> > FreeBSD.
>
> APC used to send out the serial equivalent for free, I guess they
> still do...
APC has PowerChute Personal Edition for Windows (and possible
Mac) available on their website
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:43, Robert Huff wrote:
> 1) apcupsd does not currently support USB connections for
> FreeBSD.
APC used to send out the serial equivalent for free, I guess they still do...
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Web: http://chrishow
Hi all,
I am interested to buy a brand new UPS for a host with:
# uname -a
FreeBSD host.domain.com 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb
23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
i386
This is Dell PowerEdge 2600 that comes with 2 USB and 2 serial ports.
--- dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a 5.1 box and a few other systems, one
> that comes to mind and a
> cable modem, possibly other stuff will be added in
> the future, that i'd like
> to put a UPS on. I'm looking for information and
> user experiences with UPS's
> under fb
On Sat, 2003 Jan 04 at 14:25:43 +0900, kouryuu wrote:
> I'm considering a UPS for my home system, and was wondering if
> anyone has any hardware/software recommendations.
Make sure your UPS has a serial connection -- currently, there is no
monitoring daemon that supports USB on FreeBSD. As for ha
kouryuu said:
> I'm considering a UPS for my home system, and was wondering if
> anyone has any hardware/software recommendations. I've looked around a few
> places., but when I ask about the software, they ask me
> what OS I'm running. Then of course when I tell them FreeBSD, I get that
> blank lo
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote:
> So would this program also attack to a UPS that's attached to the
> local machine via Com1? I'm guessing so, but I wanted to ask for certain
> because this is the only way I can connect the UPS since it has no USB or
> lan c
So would this program also attack to a UPS that's attached to the
local machine via Com1? I'm guessing so, but I wanted to ask for certain
because this is the only way I can connect the UPS since it has no USB or
lan connection on it to allow for network monitoring. :)
At 12:59 PM 12/
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 06:42:29PM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote:
> Hi all. I used to have an email that came from this list detailing
> which UPS program to use for freebsd, but for some reason I have lost it.
> I currently have an APC 650 Pro UPS attached to Com1 on one of my machines
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