RE: New, silly project?

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Thinking about this some more....

A 4U case should have enough height to allow either of the following layout= s


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CD DRIVE   PSU1    Floppy
MOBO 1     PSU2    MOBO 2
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CD DRIVE Floppy    MOBO 1
PSU 1      PSU2    MOBO 2
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Obviously that is the view from the front, there would be space for the Har= d
Drives behind the CD & Floppy or mounted vertically on the rear or side=
panels

Dont forget to take photos as you build this so we can see how it looks :-)=

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


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From: Nikola Kasic [mailto:nikola@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 May 2002 17:25
To: Home automation (E-mail)
Subject: [ukha_d] New, silly project?
I am thinking about this for a quite a while:
I live in a flat and I have a limited space in cupboard for node 0. I
suppose that there are more members in similar situation. I brought my
ADSL line there, hub, patching panel, UPS modem and server running 24/7. Now, I would like to start using Linux, but I don't know much about it,
so I'll have to install it on another server and gradually move services >from anyway, probably I will never be able to get rid of windows completely
because some programs exist on Windows platform only.
That means that I'll end up with one more server in my rack cabinet, and I don't have a space for it.
When I was looking how to rack mount my current PC in cabinet I found
that rack mountable PC case was =A3250, the cheapest I was able to find, so I bought a shelf instead and put a PC in normal, cheap case on the
shelf.
All this resulted in idea using one, rack mountable, cheap cases from
Maplin (=A330-40) and putting two small motherboards inside (like Via
ones). Then I can save on CD, keyb, mouse etc, if I use everything on
USB and use some cheap switch, like Belkin one. Most of those devices
(CD, floppy, keyb etc) I use very rarely on the servers, so there's no
point having them in double.
I am keeping an eye on Via project and waiting for the first impressions and problems that the guys will face (heating and similar).
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Now I would like you to tell me why this idea is silly and will not work (because I haven't seen anything similar before, but someone needs to be the first).
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Cheers,
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Nik
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