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From: jacobson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (R J Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: UPS and shutdown software????
Summary: Looking for good mac UPS and software to shutdown mac on power loss
Keywords: Uninterruptable Power Supply, shutdown software, UPS
Message-ID: <1991Jan3.201116.3056@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 20:11:16 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I am looking at the American Power Conversion UPS (uninteruptable power
supply) for my BBS.  The software is
called PowerChute for Appleshare (also by American Power conversion). The
cost for this software and hardware would be $290 from MacWarehouse. I have
asked for literature from them about the hardware and software. The software
blurb in the catalog says " PowerChute for AppleShare.  Automatically shuts
down your AppleShare network when the power fails. It communicates with a
signaling American Power Conversion UPS (such as the 110SE or 370ci). When
power fails it alerts all users and initiates a graceful shutdown of the
network. It uses a piggyback cable so it does not need its own localtalk
connector." I have a question about this software whether it would work
with just the BBS machine attached to it, but it sounds like it would.
Anyone familiar with this software/hardware? Or any other that does the
same thing. I would like to have a UPS with software that would shutdown
the BBS software then the hardware and leave it down til I get back. I am
concerned about what power failures/surges can do to the Hard drive and
especially the CD ROM. When I have tested the CD ROM with a fake power loss
the hard drive reboots when power comes back (after closing opened files
etc) but then it tries to mount the 3 partitions on the CD ROM disk I have
chosen and the system hangs. I am concerned about what this would do if
I were gone for a week, as well as the possibility of my drive getting
fried in a lightning strike.

If anyone has used this software with the 110SE UPS I would like to know
if it does what I want. If not, do you have a suggestion of what hardware
software would do that?  I know that a number of UPS hardware/software
packages exist for the MS-DOS world. But this seems to be the only one
I can find for the Mac world. Are there others that would do what I want?

Please respond by email. Thanks much!!!!!

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