Rolling a rack on carpet

[Dean Johnson]

On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:27, Mark Andrew Smith wrote:
> > like drive lights. Since you have the cord right there, you have no need
> > for the power switch. It was just a matter of putting led's in slot
> 
> ...that is true for AT motherboards, but some nodes in my cluster use an ATX
> motherboard and the on/off switch is on the front case.  I would imagine
> most newer pieces of kit are ATX these days.....
> 

Yanking the power cord works with nearly all past and present machines.
If you are patient and willing to wait for some machines internal UPS
(our AT&T 3B20 has biga** truck batteries in the back) to run down, the
percentage goes up. Of course it isn't really the best way, but it
works. I have no problems with it because any computational nodes that
get irrepairable software type problems from such an approach just get
reinstalled with "Dean's Magic Disk" (read "aint kickstart great"). ;-)

	-Dean