Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:26:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI Drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625102155.22172A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625173724.5347C-100000@aniwa.sky>
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> > Insist on ATX form factor, and a case that has (2) fans in addition to the > > fan inside the PS. Our ATX Full Tower fits the bill, and has gobs of drive > > space. The extra hieght will also aid in airflow and dissipation. > > I've run into a problem with an ATX server's power supply where in case of > power failure, the machine would not reboot without someone manually > pushing the button on the front. The motherboard had no bios setting to > avoid this, and local service departments were not able to help other than > to suggest a new mother board. Yes, that is a problem. We sold some ATX machines to the local gas company to do real-time flow control w/ QNX, until they realized they could not do a remote reboot. We had to take back the machines. > I ended up making up my own circuit to provide a signal pulse signal to > the power supply triggered and powered off the standby power line. Works > fine. Like a watchdog or what? I don't understand your trigger mechanism, unless you NAND the power supply and MB power... > I'm curious to know how common this problem is and whether there's a more > conventional solution to it? Well, a reboot causes the machine to shutdown completely, so a BIOS fix would not work. There are some MBs that use a toggle switch instead of intermittant, but the cases are based on intermittant (reset-type) powers. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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