1850 VERSA RAILS.

[Andreas_Fuchs at Dell.com]

The Versa rail is for round and square holes and needs to be screwed in.

The Rapid rail is for dell racks and similars with square holes.
All rails are 4 post rails.

The new rails which ship with the PE2950 are convertible from Versa to
Rapid rails by one click.

Versa rail manual:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/stor-sys/seuropa/multlang/0H113A02
.pdf

You might also find more in here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/smarcon/en/rackinst/rackin
st.zip

Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Frazier
Sent: Donnerstag, 9. November 2006 03:21
To: Chris T. Purcell
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Re: 1850 VERSA RAILS.

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:
>   
>> 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.
>
>
>
>
>   

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