Re: Tyan Tiger in a 2U
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
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> Patrick Flaherty
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