1850 VERSA RAILS.

[Malcolm Frazier]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the information that will help, but my problem is the rails 
that came with all my 1850s I am not sure if they are 4 or 2 post rails.
I also don't know if they are for round or square holes, its very 
confusing and I gave Dell a call, but they weren't able to help that much.


Chris T. Purcell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:02 -0800, Malcolm Frazier wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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.
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