Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 15:51:09
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hd swap
Doug,
Remove the back of the 50 completely. In the back there's an insulating
layer of plastic (probably), some soft white or blue spacers, and some
transparent hard spacers. IIRC the black shim is between the pcb and the
disc - you'll need this bit.
Lose the hard spacers, and if things are *still* tight after you put it back
together, lose the white/blue ones. But it will never be quite as easy to
fit a 9.5mm drive - the space is really intended for 8.45mm - though once
it's in, without the spacers, there should be no stress on the board.
It's the memory chip connections on the motherboard above the disc which are
at risk, and at the other end, being rough with pcmcia cards can damage the
video ram connections leading to odd effects on the screen.
Neil
>From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Hd swap
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 08:32:58 -0700
>
>Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 08:31:18 -0700
>From: "Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Hd swap
>
>Having read a lot of differing opinions on swapping hd's in the lib 50 am
>left in a bit of confusion. I have a IBM Travelstar DBCA, Specs say it is a
>9.5 mm, the Toshiba which came out is the smaller dimensioned unit and
>slides in and out easily. The replacement was quite a grunt to put in. Now
>I
>am worried that it may cause some long term damage due to it's oversize
>specs. In a lot of the post I noticed they made comment to removing a black
>tape of shim from the compartment is this in reference to the black sort of
>plastic film which I did not take out and believed to be more of a shield
>than anything. The lib is working well just that in the back of my mind I
>am
>nervous and thought I would seek the combined advise of the group. Look
>forward to comments. TIA.
>Douglas
>
>
>
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