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What's the deal with rack mounting the ProLiant 7000?
I've been busy building up my rack today, and put in the 1200 and the
5500 without any great dramas, apart from lifting the 5500 to head height - talk about working out. Now the rail kits I'm using are seconds from the local Compaq wrecking yard. The 1200 was good in that I bought it with rails, so I bought another 2 pair of rails (all the same as the 1200 - no choice - that's all I could get), and 3 pairs of the large Compaq slides, the 740mm fixed-length ones. The slides were of all different "mechanism lengths" inside, if you know what I mean, but I could live with that. The 1200 of course slotted straight in, as it was complete with the correct fittings when I bought it. Drilling one new hole and elongating the last one made the "1200" rails fit the 5500 and in it went. So far so good. I really would have liked to have had the "proper" rails for the machines but beggars can't be choosers. I had fitted the last rail pair to the 7000 and figured that I could live with the fact that to push the machine home, I'd have to toggle the track interlocks manually (all the rails are identical to the ones for the 1200, and of course the slides are all of different mechanism length inside, so the inner member isn't long enough to trip the interlock except on the one holding the 1200). I got the 7000 to connect, and started to slide it in. The bloody thing popped off the tracks - the inner and outer members didn't lock together. I pulled it out and tried again. I went through this several times and then I became suspicious - something wasn't right here. Measuring the baseline distance between the rails on the 1200 and 5500 revealed the machine's body with to be around 420mm (at the rail mounting point). Measuring the 7000 said... 410mm! WTF? I've never seen a rack kit for the 7000, so I'm making the assumption that the rails for a 7000 must be a lot deeper, to make up the difference. I'll assume that the slides are all the same, except of course in the length they travel. So can anybody tell me what my options are, considering I can't find a "genuine" 7000 rack kit at this stage? |
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What's the deal with rack mounting the ProLiant 7000?
WTF? I've never seen a rack kit for the 7000, so I'm making the assumption that the rails for a 7000 must be a lot deeper, to make up the difference. I'll assume that the slides are all the same, except of course in the length they travel. So can anybody tell me what my options are, considering I can't find a "genuine" 7000 rack kit at this stage? the rails for the 6000/7000/8000 are massive ... something like 3 times the size of the ones for the check here .... http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Proliant-...QQcmdZViewItem search criteria on ebay was "proliant 7000 rails" .... -= LC =- |
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What's the deal with rack mounting the ProLiant 7000?
"." wrote in message om.au... In article , says... the rails for the 6000/7000/8000 are massive ... something like 3 times the size of the ones for the check here .... http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Proliant-...QQcmdZViewItem That'd be about right: they're on the other side of the planet! Thanks - at least I know now what they look like. All I need to do now is somehow get a set in Sydney. Hrmm, yah well .... its like the song says .... its a small world after all -= LC =- |
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What's the deal with rack mounting the ProLiant 7000?
What about 5mm worth of washers on each side to space the rails out from the
case a little bit? You might also see what the local hardware store has. I have a couple of servers that ride quite nicely on $20.00/pair Home Depot heavy duty drawer slides. "." wrote in message om.au... In article , says... Hrmm, yah well .... its like the song says .... its a small world after all I've just found a photo of a 7000 wearing rails and I'd swear they're exactly the same as what I currently have with the sole exception being their length. I've pulled the 7000 half-way out and peering into the spaces between the slides and the rails at the rear, I can see that there is about a 10mm gap (almost half an inch) between the body of the slide and the body of the 7000 - the rails are not resting on either slide, just sitting in mid air. Do you know if this is because the proper slides are that much wider, or is everything wider? |
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What's the deal with rack mounting the ProLiant 7000?
I have a 5500 hanging from a pair in my rack and they seem to be a little
heavier duty than the stock rails. "." wrote in message om.au... In article , says... What about 5mm worth of washers on each side to space the rails out from the case a little bit? You might also see what the local hardware store has. I have a couple of servers that ride quite nicely on $20.00/pair Home Depot heavy duty drawer slides. Drawer slides in a 19" rack? Hmmmm that might be an idea, if they fit and can take the weight. |
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