From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 21 17:46:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.chartermi.net (060upc075.chartermi.net [24.213.60.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CEA37B71D for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wrath@shianet.org) Received: from danrc ([24.213.24.43]) by mail.chartermi.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71004U47242L33562S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:46:33 -0500 Message-ID: <002701c0b271$ec9721b0$2b18d518@fear.wrath.net> From: "Brian" To: Subject: rackmount Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:46:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I posted this to freebsd-hardware@ last week and got few replies, sorry if you get to see it again. I'm really looking for the standards and parts. I know there's got to be a place to for each of those things. I'm also interested in what _works_ for other people. I'm also looking for information on rackmount hardware. I'm interested in the standards such as placement of fasteners, power cords, network cables, and mounting. Ideally, this would be a learning experience--otherwise I'd just go plop my money down at intel. For the first time, I've had a reason to get into rackmount cases. I haven't found much in the list archives and my clueless web searches haven't provided me much in the way of results. I've found a few companies that provide them but they list minimal information and the cheapest I've found anything is $200 for a (empty) 2U case. I've found: http://www.rackmaster.com/products.htm http://www.calpc.com/html/contents.html http://www.aristaipc.com/chassis/chassis.htm http://www.antec-inc.com/product/product.html http://www.starbox.net/ (no parts) http://www.servercase.com/Rackmountcases.html (most impressive as far as quantity) http://www.gorilla.net/ to name a few. I'm also looking at boards. I use a SuperMicro P6DBE for everything, but I'm open to suggestions. All I need is a bare minimum of a BX chipset with support for dual P3 Katmai processors and nothing slower than Ultra33. SCSI is definitely not needed. It'd be nice if video and a 10/100 ethernet controller were on board. Since the 600MHz Katmai is on the rise, I can suffer with 800MHz or better FC-PGA processors. Ideally, the board would be $200 or less whether it be new or used. I've found a few boards that meet my needs: slot1: Intel N440BX and L440GX SuperMicro P6DBE and P6DGE Tyan 1832 and 1834 Asus P2BD Abit BP6 socket370: Abit VP6 and BP6 Tyan 2507 Gigabyte 6VXD7 and 6VXC7 Thanks for your time -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message