Subj : Booting A2K instaed of A1 To : All From : David L. Stevens Date : Sun Aug 31 2003 17:42:36 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene Laederach" To: Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:05 PM Subject: [F:AMIGA] Booting A2K instaed of A1 > Jaakko Mantysaari wrote to Dennis Smith: > JM> Yeah, hey, what happened over there? It was in the news, but what > JM> happened? Did it just blow up? > > No, it just blacked out. And thanks to the fact that at least here, Snoop > InfoSystems was always protected by UPSes, I never had an impromptu system > shutdown, even when lightning struck. > > AmigaOS 3.x just has some problems shutting down properly when initiated by > an > UPS due to the fact that we don't have a PowerChute software, something we > have > on Linux now. I never had any trouble shutting down an Amiga. As long as a drive isn't writing, you can just pull the plug. I always had my Miggy's plugged into an APC Backups, but I never had Power- Chute. I used the Backups because we had power problems back in the early '90s and the interruption would be for about 1 to 3 seconds. The restart before the capacitors had discharged would blow my CIA chips. I guess if you were running a BBS (and I know you did), there's always the chance that a drive might be writing when the power goes down. But if you were just doing a scheduled back-up at the time, only the backup file would be ruined and the machine would restart when the power resumed. --- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 * Origin: DuhGate Internet<->Fido - mail fido@duh.org for info (1:3613/44.0) .