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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:45 pm    Post subject: [OT] Chaining SPARCserver 10 power supplies o_O Reply with quote

Though I'd ask this of you, before I burn my house down :P

I have obtained 4 SPARCserver 10 boxes, and it's a pain in the arse having a separate power lead for each of them.

Here's my question:

Can I chain the power supplies at all?
I mean, each box has a power-out cable for connecting a monitor up, so can I use this to connect to one of the other boxen? if this is the case, how far do reckon I could go? Chain only two, or three, or all four?

Help much appreciated for my wee OpenMOSIX test setup...

Note: all are headless, with no framebuffers, no CD's, no floppies and 2GB HDD's in them
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends upon your country. In the UK, chaining four ss10s is fine so long as you use proper cables.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yay! thanks for the info - I am going to use cables made up by the Radio Shack in Nicolson Street, so I should be OK.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Follow-up:

Worked beautifully! Now to see if it's possible to chain up the tpe ports, as there are 2 installed in each box (to save hub port space) :P
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Er, don't do that.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ciaranm wrote:
Er, don't do that.


Any reason why not :cry: ? I was thinking along the lines of having each box in the "chain" a simple forwarder - I understand I'd need the correct crossover cables (can get 'em for nowt). If there's a huge reason e.g. massive performance degradation potential, I'd leave it. Otherwise it's a nice experiment :P. I don't even know if it's possible yet...although I guess I could use NAT. As you'll gather, I'm fairly un-clued up with the minutae of networks.

But, as I say, if there's a compelling reason, I'll live with the spaghetti...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Massive performance hit.
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