1850 VERSA RAILS.

[Chris T. Purcell]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:02 -0800, Malcolm Frazier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My company recently decided to move from a public cage (telco style racks
> with round holes) to our own private cabinet (standard cab with square
> holes) in our data center. I ran into a problem, the rails that came with
> all the dell 1850 PE that we have don't seem to work with
> our new cabinet, the rails go up fine but when trying to slide the server
> in it seems almost impossible.
> I finally had to loosen up the screws on the rails (they had to be
> extremely lose) then I could slide the server in,
> so once it was in I tried to slide it out and this again was extremely
> difficult to do, it doesn't seem like these rails work.
> 
> I am not sure if the versa rails that come with the 1850s will work with
> square holes I am unsure if they are 4 post rails or 2 post rails,
> in the public cage which had telco style racks with round holes these
> rails seemed to work fine, the only thing is we had to put notches in them
> so they could go in cause they would hit the side of the rack. So if
> anyone knows more about the rails that come with power edge 1850s please
> let me know, I really need to know if I need different rails or mounting
> brackets or what not it also been nice to know what depth of racks they
> are for, any help would be much appreciated thank you.
> 
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Check out www.racksolutions.com if you want to match up your rack with
rails for the PE1850s. I know Dell carries 2 types of rails, rapid and
versa rails, one for racks with round holes, one for racks with square
holes, but it doesn't sound like you have a Dell rack anyway. Anyhow,
RackSolutions has a lot of rack/rail/shelf solutions that may help.