Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 04:46:39 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
>Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 18:43:15 �0500 >From: Pres Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>tonight. Though I saw a couple posts that seemed to indicate that their >>Libs were damaged in the process of inserting and removing the drive. >>I'll look a bit more, but I wonder what the percentage of successes to >>failures is over all is for people who didn't physically damage anything >>in the process of installing the drive. I'd guess that the percentage of >>successes must be relatively high.<< > >No! STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION.< > >The damage does not happen right away. You sliiiiiiiiiiide a drive in, use >it happily and call it a day. A year later you have a dead motherboard and >a really STUPID look on your face.< > >This is REAL. I have seen it. Cut it out. Break your own G-damned Libretto. >Don't tell others the "percentage of success is relatively high".< Pres... I certainly didn't, and don't mean to under estimate the validity of your experiences at all. And I didn't mean to make it seem in any way that I know with a 99.9% probability that the "percentage of success is relatively high." That's why I specifically used the qualifier, "I'd guess that.." I'm sorry if it sounded like I was absolutely certain. I certainly know that I�ve got to be fairly down on the totem pole of knowledge related to computers, and Librettos in particular, in comparison to the many extremely experienced people on this list. Like all problem solving, a lot of guess work goes into the mix before the root causes are nailed down (Barnacly) and tested to a accepted degree of validity. The questions remain, is it specifically the 9.5mm HDD that causes older librettos to fail, or is it the process of installing it, or is it a combination of the two? If so, what is/are the interaction(s) between the HDD and Libretto that cause the failure? Are there other factors involved? Are these problems preventable? If so how? Etc. etc.. We�re not going to answer all this any time soon. As has been pointed out, as folks who tinker with these little beasts, we generally access the odds of failure when we start repairing and customizing our systems, and accept the possibilities of our being wrong. It�s good you�ve given people fair warning on the process of installing an oversized HDD having the potential of severely damaging their Librettos by relating your experiences Pres. The rest of us will just have to accept the odds one way or the other as we access them, and proceed to do whatever we decide to do, hopefully accepting the responsibility for the consequences. In the end� you may very well be right Pres! Who knows? Gallup hasn�t done a survey on this one yet. Any volunteers? Myself... I still lean towards Neil�s recent assessment on all this. Cheers, Matt (With apologies for my lack of being, in one word: C O N C I S E) I COULD use a good editor... ;-p _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.; ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
