Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 14:07:06 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Decent case for an Asus Dual PPro ? Message-ID: <199712010337.OAA00626@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Nov 1997 22:30:47 CDT." <19971130223047.63784@vmunix.com>
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> > What footprint is this board? You might want to consider buying a > > "real" chassis for it; either a rack case (moderately expensive, but > > very robust) or a decent server tower. Have a look at supermicro's > > site for some ideas on what real boxes look like. You should be able > > to find someone in your area (Ottowa?) that carries their stuff. > > It's a 3/4 AT footprint - but that's not the problem. The daughter > card that the CPUs are on plugs into what would normally be the > "top" PCI slot, and extends all the way across the board. This isn't a problem at all, once you move outside the domain of "cheap" cases. What's a 3/4 AT footprint? I assume this is larger than the "baby AT" size, so you're looking at a "real" server case. > ...I'm actually just outside Toronto, which means > there's almost certainly someone in Toronto that actually carries > real cases - the problem is finding them! I called about 20 PC shops > in the phone book, none of which had a decent case. Arghh. I gave > up and figured if someone was having success with a company that will > ship me one I'd do that. I may look for some toronto newsgroups and > post there looking for recomendations. Unfortunately for me, time > is a factor... You are attacking this from the wrong end. Find a brand/model that suits you, then pursue their local wholesaler/retailer chain. If the Supermicro boxes suit, they should certainly have a distributor in your corner of the world. > P.S. I just spent the last hour ripping apart a 10 year old SGI > "floor wheeling" box - wow. Talk about a different era in computing > when the construction of cases was actually an engineers job! I'm > planning on stripping it out and figuring out a way to mount 1 or > 2 PC motherboards, a couple power supplies, and some HDs in there > and turning the old gem into a PC power server in disguise :-) If Apollo had used a slightly different pattern of mounting holes in their chassis, I would be using nothing but Apollo cases for my systems; same deal. 8) mike
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