Re: [gentoo-user] UPS and serial or USB connections

[J. Roeleveld]

On Tue, September 18, 2012 9:03 am, Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:48 pm, Dale wrote:
>>> I still have not hooked this thing up yet.  We have storms predicted
>>> here over the next couple days so I figure I will get a chance to
>>> switch
>>> whether I want to reboot or not.  :/  I live close to the end of the
>>> power lines, phone lines and everything else including the road.  If
>>> anything happens, we lose the connection.  There are lots of trees
>>> between here and town.
>>>
>>> I'll post the results when I get switched over.  Then we have a answer
>>> to the question.
>> Dale,
>>
>> A good way to test a new UPS is to use it to power a light and hook up
>> the
>> USB/Serial/... to a computer to see what information you can get out of
>> it
>> in the various "normal" situations of "plugged in" and "not plugged in"
>>
>> You don't need to reboot your machine for that. :)
>>
>
> I need to reboot when I plug the power cord up tho.  I have the UPS
> plugged in and the battery is charged.  I even hooked it up to a older
> rig that was given to me and the UPS works fine.  I just have not done
> anything as far as hooking it to my main rig yet.  I also have not
> hooked up the data part, just the power part.  I was running memtest on
> the older rig to test some ram so no need trying to hook up the data
> part on that.  ;-)
>
> Plus, aren't you supposed to only unplug/plug a serial cable when it is
> off?  I'm not sure if they are sensitive to that but pretty sure they
> were a long time ago.

Not sure about Serial, I always did even when switched on when using
external modems in the past and never did have a problem there.

But if you want to see what USB gives as info, you could plug the
USB-cable into your computer and see what info you can get?

-- 
Joost