In case anyone was wondering in ended up just using a pci graphics card and "customized" (mutilated) it's back plane....works good. so if anyone wants to put a tiger in a cheap case, get a different powersupply and cut your own back plane plate.
patrick On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 13:58, Patrick Flaherty wrote: > Has anyone found a moderatly cheap 2u rack to put a tyan tiger k8w > (S2875) in? i've been looking around, but it seems the only way i can > get one to fit properly is to use an agp riser and block all the pci > slots. they fit into 3U's pretty easily, but i'd prefer to only use 3u > cases when i'm going to need to put lots of drives in them. > > currently i've been beating it into a > http://rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=1953 with a different > power supply. running in console only mode. while this solution works it > sorta sucks, esp if i want want to put any sort of expansion card in it. > in addition to the riser issue, the 5/12volt connector next to the ram > get's blocked by any power supplies with the input below the switch, as > well as having an unfiltered 120v line running past my drives and ram. > AWESOME. > > also, if anyone knows of different server hardware oriented lists i > could send this too i'd be happy to try them too. > > thanks > patrick > -- > --- > Patrick Flaherty -- --- Patrick Flaherty
