>Simple Solution: > >Take a working floppy drive. Remove the face plate plastic and glue it >to a 3.5" tin tray which you then mount in the case instead of a floppy >drive. >Take the remains of the floppy drive and hide it behind a blanking >plate. >On newer cases with moulded floppy accesses on the front you only need >the tray.
Nah... my solution was easier. I simply shared one of my server's floppy drives, and I map as needed at the workstation. That left me free to leave the (usually) broken floppy drive alone on the PC, and let them do whatever they please with it. I went with my solution after I swapped out my 3rd broken drive due to their index card storage habits. At that point I wasn't willing to invest further resources in replacing drives, so I moved my drive access to a machine that is in a locked room, and let the network do its job. Total "repair" time... about 30 seconds to share the drive on the server. Problem solved for all 34 workstations at the same time. Total "repair" cost (hard dollars)... $0.00. Saving my sanity... Priceless! :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
