Hi, I've been trying to get a potato install to use these two pieces of hardware, with varying degrees of success. Has anyone used them successfully?
The UPS is an MGE Pulsar ESV 11+. I tried the software that came with it and the newer version available on MGE's homepage. I also tried mgeupsd and apcupsd (hoping the UPS would be APC-compatible). None of the programs managed to communicate with the UPS, however. Could this perhaps be a problem with the serial port that's not working as it should? The tape drive is a HP C5683 (as reported by the SCSI BIOS) and works fine under certain circumstances. I was going to use dump/restore or possibly even straight tar unto the tape, but both of these methods - tho managing to write part of the file to tape - give "sense data error"s and bail out after about 400 blocks written. I did manage to backup and restore a small filesystem using taper without getting any errors. What's taper doing that the other programs aren't? /Hultin
