Routers, switches, machine room and lockable racks (was Re: [tech] Switchesu)

Ian McKellar yakk at yakk.net.au
Thu Sep 14 03:24:32 WST 2000


On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:20:47PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> JP and I think we might be able to munge one of the AT
> rackmount cases into something suitable for a Socket370 ATX
> system.

I am 100% happy as soon as someone gets fire insurance. We do NOT want to be
hacking on power supplies - we almost had a fire the other day.
> 
> > and a pci video card, if we can't squeeze one into an isa slot ;)
> > of which I also have a working one.
> 
> That could be handy - a new MB may not have an ISA slot. ::-)

That motherboard I posted had onboard video... Onboard is usually sucky, but
all we want is one that:
(a) lets our OS boot and have a text console, and
(b) doesn't take any slots that could be used for ethernet cards :)

Ian




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