Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:42:03 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
>Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 12:12:00 -0500 >From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > >Get an 8.45mm HDD and call it a day< < > > > > > >You removed those spacers and it still failed? I removed mine and the >HDD is practically a drop-in fit ... no pressure on the motherboard at >all.< < < > > > > Maybe you've responded in a post I haven't gotten to, but I'll reply >here anyway. < < > > > > Yeah Pres... I didn't realize anyone had had problems with dropping a >9.5mm drive into the L50s or L70s. You say above that the L50s were >damaged "by HDD insertion." This implies to me that during the process of >inserting and/or removing the drives, you damaged components on the the MB. > I was always under the impression that as long as the spacers were taken >out, that there would be no physical contact or heat problem. < < > >But that's not the case. Removing the spacers is a help, but not a >cure.< > >I did it, I ruined it, that's that.< Wow... Now I'm really curious as to how many other people on the list have had problems damaging their Libby after putting 9.5mm drives in their early 8.5mm HDD systems after removing the spacers! Is Pres in the minority here folks? Or have their been a lot of other cases of this problem posted to the list that I've missed? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
