Subject: Re: filesystem issues after rude powerdown
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/03/2004 15:06:54
In message <20040803212650.GD18168@drowsy.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann writes:
>On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:10:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> Your UPS is usb-only ? Well, it's probably out of luck then :(
>
>Maybe for now, yes.
>
>It should not be hard to port the USB support the various UPS packages
>started to offer experimentally - it's just that this happened quite recently
>and USB-only UPSes are not that common yet.

In fact, most of the APC UPSs are only or mostly USB, as best I can 
tell -- and given the *awful* things they do to talk over serial ports, 
I can't say I blame them... 

I tried building the USB support for the 'nut' package, but it required 
some USB libraries that NetBSD doesn't have.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb