[Nut-upsdev] Re: [Nut-upsuser] 64bits bug? (was: my ups shuts down when starting

[Peter Selinger]

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 
> 2007/2/19, Glen Ogilvie <nelg at linuxsolutions.co.nz>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Fenton Powerpal L660, when I try and configure nut with either the
> > metatec or fentonups driver, and start upsd, the UPS instantly turns itself
> > off.
> >
> > It used to work, until I changed my motherboard and CPU, which means it has
> > a different bios and serial port setup.
> >
> > This is happening with Nut 2.0.1 and also Nut 2.0.5.   I have an AMD64 bit
> > processor, Mandriva 2007 64 bit.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what I should do to investigate this?
> >
> > The error I got from the fenton drive was:
> > Short read during UPS id sequence
> 
> I wonder if were not facing a 64b bugs?!
> can you make another test with nut 2.0.5 + megatec + same ups on a 32
> bits system, and report back.
> 
> Any developer with a 64b setup to report back?

I've run NUT on a 64-bit (AMD) Linux system without problems. I have
only run the newhidups/usbhid-ups driver though. -- Peter