Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone had any experience opening up the VST expansion bay hard >drives (pismo/lombard version in particular) and installing a larger >hard drive?
Yes, but I "cheated": I got a VST case from a guy who had already opened it up, very tidily, and provided full instructions. A year or so ago when a VST Exp Bay HD went thru my hands (with a PowerBook I was working on) I noted that it didn't seem to be easily openable; I emailed VST/SmartDisk about it, and was told that they "didn't support" user upgrades. Then a few months ago SmartDisk had a big closeout sale on their VST Exp Bay stuff; I was too late to get anything useful, but soon noticed a lot of them appearing on eBay, in particular from one "dankephoto," who'd apparently bought up a lot of VST Exp Bay HDs, taken them apart, and was selling the cases and HDs separately for a tidy profit. Well, I can't argue with such an entrepreneurial spirit, and the guy was very up-front with description/explanation and offered plenty of clear photos. After being outbid on one or two, I went ahead and Bought It Now, figuring I was willing to pay a premium for having the job made easy for me. Which it was; I now have a 20GB Travelstar in it. I thought he'd have sold all his stock by now, but recently noticed he has another for sale: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2064939681 Check out his excellent assembly instruction page at: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dankephoto/ebay/sdbay/ (Go to this page in iCab and you can save it to disk complete to open any time you need it.) If you have your own case and want to open it up, this should supply all the info you need. Note in particular that the four screws that attach the drive to the case are hidden by the vinyl cover on the bottom of the case; dankephoto did a nice job of uncovering the screw heads with little circular cutouts. My only caveat: some of the case screws screw into plastic, so can easily be stripped; be careful with them, and don't plan on opening the case too many times, it's obviously not designed for it. Andrew Main -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:G-Books-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:G-Books-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
