Bought a 1U server, now can't find rails

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Published on 2010-03-13T02:40:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 2:47 UTC
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I bought a 1U server used on eBay (a Supermicro motherboard, but branded "Asempra"), and I also bought a set of "Supermicro" rails, but unfortunately the rails didn't fit the server.

The side of the server looks like:

Can you tell me where I can find rails for this machine?

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