Daniel Feenberg wrote: >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. > 1U (and other size) rack mount rails are usually available at an extra charge from most vendors. These are usually sold as a "rack mount kit". The two vendors I'm most familiar with are Dell (1U & 4U) and Sun (4U and one for a V880 - 43U?). APC also sold their rack mounted UPSs with rack mount kits.
>I don't doubt that users with cabinets can get side rails from some >vendors, but it doesn't seem to be standard issue. > From my experience, rails are vendor and size (1U, 2U, etc) specific. Bruce Davis UNIX Systems Administrator Concerto Software --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
