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   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.   
      
      
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