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From: mezaucha@woodlawn.uchicago.edu (Matthew Edward Zaucha)
Subject: Re: UPS recommendations ?
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:20:35 GMT
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In article <40pmbb$onv@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote:
>>
>>Due to numerous power failures I need to get a UPS for my FreeBSD machine.
>
>There's no official UPS support, but Hellmuth Michaelis has once been
>posting a (dumb) UPS package to alt.source, which he's been using
>under FreeBSD.
Excuse me for my blatant ignorance, but why would an operating
system need to support the UPS backup device? I have looked at the more
popular (and cheap) power backups and it seems that all that needs to be
done is to plug your computer power cables into it, and get back to your
work. What else must be done? Thanks in advance, as I too am in desparate
need of some sort of power backup system.
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Matthew E. Zaucha