Re: Linux does not care for data integrity

[Bill Davidsen]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:00:34AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>  
>
> > Unfortunately even drives in a dual power tray with redundany power from 
> > separate UPS sources will occasionally have a power failure. Proved that 
> > last month, the power strip in the rack failed, dumped all the load on 
> > the other leg, the surge tripped a breaker. Had an APC UPS in my office 
> > fail in a mode which dropped power, waited for the battery to trickle 
> > charge to charge the battery a bit, then repeat. Looks to be losing half 
> > of a full wave rectifier.
> >
> > The point is that power failures WILL HAPPEN, even with good backups. 
> > The goal should be to prevent excessive and avoidable data damage when 
> > it does.
> >
> > Shameless plug: for office use I changed from APC to Belkin on all new 
> > units, they have had Linux drivers for some time now, and I like to 
> > support those who support Linux.
> >    
>
> Hasn't apcupsd existed for at least a decade?  Works rather well for me.
> Hard to imagine better linux/unix support than APC seems to have
> provided so far.
>  

I thought apcuspd was a third party project, sourceforce shows it as a 
project. Didn't know APC was actually "providing" anything, is the 
driver on the CD now? Sure wasn't on the APC CD I had, I did have it at 
one time, but it didn't come with the UPS (at that time).

> For some reason Belkin screms cheap junk to me.  Maybe that's because
> that is what you always see for sale with that brand on it.  They may
> have nice stuff that I just haven't seen because it isn't carried by
> most stores.
You don't have Staples or Wal-Mart? Office Max did drop the UPS, the 
local store manager said the issue was margin, hadn't had enough returns 
on either brand to be meaningful.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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