Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 21:35:43 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
>Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 08:51:18 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>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<< > >[careful phrasing alert] I cannot comment on the way in which other people >may have fitted the harddrives :) but I have never seen the main memory >failed on a machine which has had the original drive never changed. I have >had three machines which are working well all of which have had at least >one - and for my current machine, probably one per week - hard disk >change.< > >My feeling is that the risk involved in changing to a 9.5mm disk - provided >the spacers are properly removed and normal care is taken - is probably >less than the risk of tripping over the power cable and pulling the lib off >a table. > >Neil Congratulations Mr. Barnacle. You have now earned an advanced graduate degree in Libretterati Diplomacy! _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
