On 6/22/09 9:45 AM, Matt Emson of [email protected] sent
>
> 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
I am curious to know if the same issue exists for the Lombard (G3/400MHz
unit). I am in hopes of upgrading its OEM 6 Gig HD to a new slim line
(9.5mm) Samsung Spinpoint 20 Gig HD. Will I need to shield the HD?
Thanks,
Dana
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