I have bought a reasonable amount of rack-mountable equipment, and only
the UPSs came with side rails. Everything else wants to be mounted on the
front panel, including Compaq, DEC, Network Appliance, and off-brand
equipment. For that reason I resist 1u rack-mount equipment - it sags at
the rear.
I don't doubt that users with cabinets can get side rails from some
vendors, but it doesn't seem to be standard issue.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:13:21PM -0400, Alex wrote:
> > Given what I think of as a "normal" 1U machine with a pair of
> > rack ears on the front of the chassis, how do you install it
> > in a 4-post rack? I assume there's some additional hardware
> > you need to get, but everything I can imagine involves drilling
> > holes in the chassis --- not something I want to do to existing
> > machines.
>
> 1U boxes going into a cabinet/4post rack generally have some sort
> of slide rails that get mounted in the cabinet, and then you
> slide the 1U box into the rails.
>
> -j
>
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