At 01:28 PM 9/5/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >hi! while supporting HW design engrs, my platforms have (of course?) > been starting to turn away from Sun and towards Linux. > >Rackmount boxes are nice, even if they sit on a metrocart, but I've learned: > > ---2U boxes are a pain because: > --PCI riser cards rarely work right,
One other point on the PCI cards. Be vary careful with cabling where , e. g., scsi cards are installed in the riser. I had a Dell 2U system used with a big ol' HP tape library. 2 scsi cables to the drive. When we first set it up, the Dell sat on edge nest to the drive. Everything worked fine. In preparation for the actual move to the rack, we just shoved the whole thing onto a cart same height as the bench. (HP heavy ) Dell on top of drive. After a few days, the thing broke. Turns out the heavy HP cables put too much stress on the PCI scsi cards and one had actually fractured. I pay a lot more attention to cabling after that. Joe Yuska --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
