Ascend Archive
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: (ASCEND) Everyone go buy a fan.




On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Darkshot wrote:

> So. A quick drive to the remote PoP. I unstacked (physically) the 3
> Maxen, placed aluminum spacers between them, rotated them 30 degrees
> from each other, turned a window fan on the "pile o'Maxen", rebooted,
> and....over 13 hours later, no problems. NONE. We're now headed into
> the "heat of the day" so if there are going to be problems, we'll see
> them within the next 6 hours. The main harbringer is CRC errors- at
> least here, when we see those start at all, we know we're getting ready
> to see the reboots and/or lost modems.

You'll also find that having two racks of MAXen side by side is a bad idea
as well.  They simply blow hot air into the ones in the rack to the left
of them, and it's overheat city.

Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
"Backhoes never sleep." - Patrick Greenwell


++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++
To unsubscribe:	send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com
To get FAQ'd:	<http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>


Follow-Ups: References: