I installed the new drive from Ruby Sky Tech in mire, and reinstalled Debian with Linux 2.6.8, setting up software RAID-1. Took a while but went smoothly.
Mounting deleuze was not so good. It turns out this is impossible without at least two people; the server is much too heavy. I'm sure I could mount mire or most other 1U servers, I've even done 2U servers a lot less hefty than Deleuze with only some awkwardness involved, but Deleuze weighs 200 pounds and the cabinet is shoulder-height. I made a heroic effort and was lucky to end up without injuring Deleuze or myself. Unfortunately before I realized I'd need to get help some other day, a hook on the left rail snagged on the corner of the server, causing it to warp. Now it won't close. Bending it back into shape is out of the question, these are heavy, solid steel rails. I've already contacted the vendor to see about replacement. Another issue I noted was that although the rail is adjustable for space between the posts, even fully extended the slide rails are about half a centimeter too short for our rack. I was able to install the rails without the back panels being fully flush with the rear post, in other words there was a little space on the screw between the post panel and the rail panel. It felt secure when fully screwed and I think that is fine, although it is possible that over time this could warp the rear screws and make replacing them a little harder, but I'm just speculating. I don't think there's anything we can do about that. The other possibility on the table besides ordering a new railkit if they won't send us a replacement part is just leaving Deleuze on the bottom of the cabinet and mounting everything else above it. This might even give us slightly more space in the cabinet, because if it sits on the bottom we get a few more holes on the rail, maybe half or 2/3 of a U. The biggest disadvantage of that is making Deleuze a little more inaccessible for maintenance, instead of being able to just pop it out and work on it. Although if it's such a lug like this maybe rails for it are more trouble than it's worth. Ventilation and cooling does not appear to be a problem. We definitely do need rails or shelves for anything else going above Deleuze. While Deleuze could probably withstand an elephant sitting on its armored steel case, the Sun Fire and the Nortel switch have much lighter (and easier to deal with) cases, so they shouldn't be all in a stack, especially when we get Abu, the 1650, and any other servers. (the 1650 will come with a shelf so it won't contribute to the problem). I don't anticipate any other 2U servers in this cabinet. Will Abu come with rails, or is it mounted on Xiolink's rails? -ntk _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
