[Nut-upsuser] New NUT user with HP R3000XR problem

[Brother Railgun of Reason]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:51:31PM -0400, Brother Railgun of Reason wrote:
> ups.conf looks like this:
> 
> [tokamak]
>     driver      = bcmxcp
>     port        = /dev/tty00
>     baud_rate   = 19200
>     desc        = HP R3000XR (main rack)

(Oops.  That's *after* changing to the 19200 rate the driver claims to
autodetect.)


> Am I using the correct cable here?  If not, what's the correct cable to 
> use?

The other detail I forgot to add was that, just out of sheer 
constructive paranoia, I tried using an APC 940-0024C cable instead of 
the HP cable, which as far as I can tell with a DVM is just a dumb 
serial cable wired all nine pins straight through.  With the HP cable, 
the driver thinks it has comm sync at 19200, but upsdrvctl can't talk to 
it; with the APC cable, the driver can't even establish communication at 
all.


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