I can hear that thing from here. We had so many of these damn things in the IBM lab I worked in. They got super hot too. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I weep for your power bill, lol.
I'm glad I still have a CD-DVD burner on my laptop for this ahah!
I still can't figure out if there is a web interface for "managing" this thing, I know IPMI work, but I'm starting to test things around those ASM ports in the back... Do you have any insight on that by any chance ?
I still have a few pairs of them, they suck and use flipped 1u generics instead because it's studded on the sides and can't be fucked to buy a Dremel or something else to cut em off
This reminds me of when I installed my Dell m1000e blade server into my rack. As it turns out, the clearance behind the face of a 19" rack isn't standardized, so a protrusion on the ears would have interfered. The solution ended up being an angle grinder to remove the protrusion, and then re-leveling my rack, since otherwise the holes on the server wouldn't align unless the rails are absolutely plumb.
And yeah, I'm sure in the future I'll find other weird server rails, and I actually have another pair of unused rails that I don't know anything about, they are not sliding rails, just the "shelf" kind of rail. And I might talk a bit about it, even though there is a lot less to say about them (But rack mounting them is really finicky too it seems...)
The next blog post will be about an IBM eServer 336 that I got for free too, I'll probably separate it into multiple parts (Hardware Review + Software Tests)
Edit: I just checked and there is a small HP part number sticker: 697305-001, and they are rails for the HP D3600 storage boxes! Well I know a lot more about these rails now
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