>Hi all, >I am undertaking a project to transform my Pulsar into a 4/5 drive >raid server with 4/5 4gig barracuda sca drives [snip] > Where is bay seven? I can count only six but my manual states there >are seven internal bays... >And what is the plastic cage thing for at the bottom front of the inside >behind the speaker? I can't seem to get that out for a closer look. Is >that a bay?
Pete, As Howie described, there is space in there for a vertically positioned drive. There are two mounting screw holes accessible from the front when the plastic faceplate is removed. The more internal piece of plastic (~square-ish) I've assumed to be a housing to hold a fan which would blow on the vertical drive. That piece is indeed difficult to remove (I did it last week in order to mount a full-sized PCI card) but it will separate from the piece to which the vertical drive will mount. The locking mechanism is difficult to describe but it seems to be a three point attachment: two "clips" at the bottom and an L-shaped tab at the top rear corner (looking in from the side). The clips can be detached first fairly easily by pushing or prying upwards at the bottom. Then the fan housing piece remains hinged at the top rear corner, but with much freedom of movement. Get lots of lighting in there and perhaps you can see the tab/slot arrangement. It was a bear to work free. I can email you digital snapshots showing the contact points if you would like. It really isn't necessary to do this in order to install the vertical drive, though. The drive, with scsi cable attached at the top, will simply slide into the space between the fan housing cage and the speaker. (I apologize for the verbosity.) I _think_ a drive will also mount beneath the floppy drive bay. > Can I use the floppy bay for a hard drive bay? I don't use the >floppy at all. I've never tried this. > Where can I place an extra fan in here for best cooling the hard >drives? Bays 3,4,5 and six are mighty close to each other. Or can I >replace the existing fan with a better one? I'm not sure of your numbering scheme, but in any case those HDDs are going to be packed very close together; add a CDRW plus fans and scsi cable(s) and I think airflow and cooling become a challenge. I wanted a similar complement of drives (IDE) and decided to transplant the motherboard to an ATX tower case. I'm in that process now. It's an easy fit except for the ADB and SCSI ports. Someone recently mentioned removing this piece (EMI shield?) from the UMAX case and replacing the ATX EMI shield with it. The ATX piece should pop out easily. Some on the List have done this there are links on the net (I had some but can't get to them right now). HTH, --Bruce -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
