Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com wrote: > Looking for feedback from anyone who has succesfully dealt with this > issue so I don't go out and buy the wrong thing. >
I have a similar drive in my working Wallstreet 2. The previous owner did the fix, but as I've disassembled it completely (to fix charging circuit and battery/Drive eject mechanisms) I saw exactly what he did. Basically, he took a large sheet of aluminium foil, Ironed it (I remember ready why you need to do this but forget of the top of my head), and attached it to the top of the drive. This seems to work. I quote his email to me : > by the way the foil wrapped around was a work around I discovered > after upgrading mine to 20gb and the computer constantly going to > sleep, apparently the magnetic field put out by the bigger drive sets > of the switch like when you close the lid, so the procedure I found > online was to iron a sheet of al-foil to de-ironise it then wrap the > hard drive, maybe it's a load of tosh but seemed to work So it looks like the magnetic control in the drive was making the laptop sleep, not the other way round. This makes sense, having seen the big honking magnets in most drives these days. Hope that helps, M --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
