18 Nov
2003
18 Nov
'03
9:29 p.m.
On Nov 18, 21:03, vrs wrote:
From: "John Allain"
<allain(a)panix.com>
designed
Haven't got time to comment on everything
you've said.
Some tips:
Rails come in two pieces.
You can mount one piece to the drive and one to the rack.
When you have the rails in two pieces, the rack side rails
can be screwed in place with much less stuff in the way
than if the drive was there, so please do that.
"Safety Rails" do not come apart like that. They are specifically
so the device *won't* go in or out through the
front of the machine.
It
will extend so the device can be serviced, but it
won't let go so you
can
take the device out and set it on a table.
All the rails I've ever seen have some way of separating equipment from
rail; usually catches that can be undone to allow the unit to come
right out the front. I've seen some rails where the catches were hard
to find, hard to get at, hard to figure out, but never one without any
catch or release mechanism at all. It wouldn't make sense: if the
equipment is so heavy and/or delicate that you couldn't risk it falling
out, you don't want to make it too hard to mount in the first place.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York