I bought a Belkin 375VA battery backup unit to give me time to gracefully shut down the G5 the next time PG&E has one of their momentary power failures -- something that seems to happen at least once a month where I live.
Belkin's software no longer supports OS X ... and I've found a number of reports on the Net regarding general trouble using this unit with Macs.
When I plug in the USB connection, the Energy Saver panel recognizes the unit, and gives me an option to shut down when the unit's running off the battery.
Unfortunately, whenever I have the USB cable connected, I get a popup saying I'm running off battery backup ... then the Energy Saver shuts the machine down.
Has anyone gotten the Belkin to work with Energy Saver properly?
Or should I return this unit and if so, what battery plays well with OS X?
In article BLOCKSPAMfishfry-38D087.21190129052006@redacted.invalid, fishfry BLOCKSPAMfishfry@redacted.invalid wrote:
I bought a Belkin 375VA battery backup unit to give me time to gracefully shut down the G5 the next time PG&E has one of their momentary power failures -- something that seems to happen at least once a month where I live.
Belkin's software no longer supports OS X ... and I've found a number of reports on the Net regarding general trouble using this unit with Macs.
When I plug in the USB connection, the Energy Saver panel recognizes the unit, and gives me an option to shut down when the unit's running off the battery.
Unfortunately, whenever I have the USB cable connected, I get a popup saying I'm running off battery backup ... then the Energy Saver shuts the machine down.
Has anyone gotten the Belkin to work with Energy Saver properly?
Or should I return this unit and if so, what battery plays well with OS X?
Return it. I think you'll find many UPSes properly implementing a generic UPS interface.
In article mcmurtri-D621C5.22502029052006@redacted.invalid, Kevin McMurtrie mcmurtri@redacted.invalid wrote:
In article BLOCKSPAMfishfry-38D087.21190129052006@redacted.invalid, fishfry BLOCKSPAMfishfry@redacted.invalid wrote:
I bought a Belkin 375VA battery backup unit to give me time to gracefully shut down the G5 the next time PG&E has one of their momentary power failures -- something that seems to happen at least once a month where I live.
Belkin's software no longer supports OS X ... and I've found a number of reports on the Net regarding general trouble using this unit with Macs.
When I plug in the USB connection, the Energy Saver panel recognizes the unit, and gives me an option to shut down when the unit's running off the battery.
Unfortunately, whenever I have the USB cable connected, I get a popup saying I'm running off battery backup ... then the Energy Saver shuts the machine down.
Has anyone gotten the Belkin to work with Energy Saver properly?
Or should I return this unit and if so, what battery plays well with OS X?
Return it. I think you'll find many UPSes properly implementing a generic UPS interface.
I think you'll find that a 375VA unit is not large enough to support a G5. I put my dual G5 on a 500VA APC UPS and it would shut down pretty much immediately. You may be having a similar problem with the Belkin for this reason. I have it on a 1200VA APC unit now; no difficulty. The APC comes with Mac OS X software, but you don't need it.
Jerry Kindall jerrykindall@redacted.invalid wrote:
I think you'll find that a 375VA unit is not large enough to support a G5
I'll second that one. m.
In article 1hg56h0.axp272dgikxkN%matt@redacted.invalid, matt@redacted.invalid (matt neuburg) wrote:
Jerry Kindall jerrykindall@redacted.invalid wrote:
I think you'll find that a 375VA unit is not large enough to support a G5
I'll second that one. m.
Thanks to everyone who replied. This unit's going back to Fry's.