Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 08:12:56 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
>Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 07:28:53 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>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?<< >> > >I've had two (50) mobos, and seen three or four others, which have failed >with main ram problems. Two of those I have ben able to fix, the others >were write-offs. I've also seen - and fixed - one mobo with a video ram >fault. The video ram is at the opposite end of the board, above where the >PCMCIA cards plug in.< > >Every one of the faulty mobos I've seen has had a disc other than the >original. This doesn't mean I don't swap my 20G (working) and >6G(experimental OS etc) drives around fairly often, it just means I'm very >careful when I do it.< > >It appears that the mobo is more flexible than is good for it. It also >appears that the 50 case and the 70 case (which had the fatter drive) are >*not* identical to each other, although they will work on either machine >with a little filing around the hole where the expansion port pokes >through.< So is it possible that in the majority of cases where a Lib has gone belly up by installing a 9.5mm HDD, it was not because HDD spacers were removed and a 9.5mm drive installed per se, but because of some accidental physical damage done to the system in the process of installing the HDD? I note that you didn't say you found any damage done to a Lib that had a 9.5mm HDD carefully and properly installed Neil. Matt (Do I need to be more concise? I received what appeared to be a complaint to that affect in an anonymous email.) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
