LCD Displays That Fit In A 5.25" Drive Bay?

An anonymous reader asks: "Several years ago, I saw several manufacturers that sold LCD displays that slid out of the 5-1/4" bay, flipped down, and allowed you to have a minimal monitor that stored in the case. Since it slid out and flipped down, that meant it easily fit into 1U and 2U rack mounted hardware. Now that I'm about to get charged beacoup bucks for having a monitor at the CoLo where I have my servers, I'm looking for something like this again. (SSH doesn't help with hardware and BIOS settings.)" Read on for some details on what he's looking for -- you may be after the same thing (or better yet, have such screens to sell).

"Yes, I have tried Google, but no one seems to be making these anymore. There's scads of links to projects where people mount their own LCD display vertically in 3 unused bays in a normal PC case, but I need something that will hide in a normal bay (just like a CD-ROM drive), and there obviously aren't 3 unused bays vertically arranged in a 2U rackmount case.

Anyone know of a manufacturer? Got an old model that works that you want to sell? I might even throw one in my car since then I could hide the display when I'm not using it, and it'd give me a minimal monitor for that SBC-based portable server I've been meaning to build, and it might be good enough to play some games on in a mini-portable system, etc., not to mention the sheer cool-factor."

Comments

Re:Something different

[DonFinch]

now if they had floppy drives you can remotely kick the disk out of...life would be sweet.

(my biggest headache when I remotely reboot a server.)

Liquid Crystal Display Display?

[Euphonious Coward]

Surely everybody reading this realizes that LCD stands for "Liquid Crystal Display". So, an LCD Display would be a Liquid Crystal Display Display.

There might be one in your ATM machine ( Automatic Teller Machine machine) which you can look at while you poke in your PIN number (Personal Identification Number number), which it will store momentarily in its RAM memory (Random Access Memory memory).

Re:Liquid Crystal Display Display?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't forget the NIC Card (Network Interface Card card)

Re:Liquid Crystal Display Display?

[Anonymous Coward]

I was sitting here reading this while I ate some crackers made by Nabisco Co. (National Biscuit Company Company).

Re:Liquid Crystal Display Display?

[zcat_NZ]

Actually it is encrypted by hardware crypto processors before it is stored anywhere. Yes, my day job is at a bank.

But it's not encrypted very securely. Yes, I read the Register :)

Re:Liquid Crystal Display Display?

[sabNetwork]

If you're going to get picky, ever notice how Microsoft writes "Built on NT Technology"?

NT stands for New Technology. Built on New Technology Technology.

Re:Something different

[TitaniumFox]

Heh, this piece of equipment is pretty useful, thanks for the link. They've got a demo of their product in some 150Mhz machine running BSD that you can reboot. It took a while to connect, so I think curious /. readers have found their demo, too. ;) Somewhere in a closet you can hear:

[reboot] [beep] ...
[reboot] [beep] ...
[reboot] [beep] ...

TiFox

Re:Something different

[Loosewire]

no no no you put the disk in then leave - then make it eject it- this breaks the glass on the front of the rack you nip in and take your server then claim on the insurance it was stolen and thats how you pay for your $350 weasel and some beer money ontop ;-)

Re:Something different

[kasperd]

eject from linux

I have a SparQ drive connected to a parallel port. (Had I known what piece of crap it was, I'd never have bought it.) The documentation says it cannot eject from software. Before I got my first Linux computer, I tested the drive on a friends Linux computer. He had not read the documentation, so he just used the eject command. To my surprise it actually worked.