I don't even know what it is! I gather it's not crutial to my system.
:)
thanks
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Nope, it's not critical. UPS stands for Uninterruptable Power Supply. It's
equipment that switches from the well plug to battery power if your power
should go out. Have a look at apc.com if you're curious at all.
Pop`
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:47:19 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Do you have an uninterruptable power source? If not do nothing.
Re: "Mysterious" system crashes ... did when I took electronics and worked in that trade before getting ... made to appear as a capacitive load and the power company may give you ... little to the home-computer UPS buyer other than when he's trying to ... and offer some protection for less than $600. ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: UPS shutdown procedure ... Also if your UPS doesnt have the capacity to cope with the pwr used by your ... PC it will shut down immediately ie no proper / gracefull shutdown... battery backup should the power supply be interrupted. ... you do nothing the battery power drains and your PC gets abruptly turned ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: UPS shutdown procedure ... The purpose, as I understand it, of the UPS is to provide a battery backup should the power supply be interrupted. ... When the power is interrupted the UPS kicks in to keep your system running long enough for you to manually save files and close down. ... If, during this time, you do nothing the battery power drains and your PC gets abruptly turned off in the same way it would if you simply tripped the switch on the power plug. ... No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: back-up power supply ... :I was thinking to get a back-up power supply for my PC and saw a book ... The least expensive type of UPS is 'passive'. ... the battery goes back out again when the power returns. ... One issue with passive UPSs is that the electricity is not flowing ... (comp.security.misc)
Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0 ... >> power goes out for more than say 5 minutes or so. ... >> system goes into a safe state when the battery gets low, then the ups... >> The second question has to do with a rc.d script that nut recommends... The script does a 'upsdrvctl shutdown' and then a sleep ... (freebsd-questions)
