stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) (03/09/90)
In article <5758@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F Vita) writes: *In article <2836@mtuni.ATT.COM> psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) writes: **... You'll lost the second drive. * * This is no longer true...The hard drive mounts right on top of the * two floppies. It's kind of a tight fit, but it does work. We've seen a number of internal drives setups like this in our shop. We see them when the hard drive bumps into the crt circuit board, and snaps the neck of the crt off. I'd be worried about going with this setup unless 1. the SE has the old horizontal crt circuit board (with the old fan) 2. the drive going in is one of the new 1" high (low profile) ones 3. the SE is going to stay put - it doesn't travel from home to office (or school, etc.) -- steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett
s320@cs.utexas.edu (Spring 90) (03/27/90)
In article <20198@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Steve Ligett) writes: >In article <5758@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F Vita) writes: >*In article <2836@mtuni.ATT.COM> psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) writes: >**... You'll lost the second drive. >* >* This is no longer true...The hard drive mounts right on top of the >* two floppies. It's kind of a tight fit, but it does work. > >We've seen a number of internal drives setups like this in our shop. >We see them when the hard drive bumps into the crt circuit board, and >snaps the neck of the crt off. I'd be worried about going with this >setup unless > >1. the SE has the old horizontal crt circuit board (with the old fan) >2. the drive going in is one of the new 1" high (low profile) ones >3. the SE is going to stay put - it doesn't travel from home to > office (or school, etc.) > >-- >steve.ligett@dartmouth.edu or ...!dartvax!steve.ligett I work in the service department in our campus reseller, and I've been the one who has installed hard drives into 2 floppy SE's most of the time. I've had to deal with both horizontal and vertical brackets, and about 3 or 4 different types of drives. The only problem we've found after installation is interference when the drive is seeking, but only on some machines (not with a specific drive, either.) However, most of the suppliers ship the drives with brain dead brackets, so our policy is to (usually) do only Rodimes, because they come with a special bracket designed for this purpose. I have no financial interest in Rodime, and am just speaking from experience. My opinions are my own. (Like the MicroCenter knows I have an opinion...ha!) Ted s320@ar-rimal.cs.utexas.edu Don't shoot the food...