dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter) (03/19/91)
Thanks for those who replied to my plea for help installing the OD dust filter on a cube in an internal hard disk. The most helpful reply was from Tom Blenko, who pointed out that the secret was unpluging the power cable from the hard disk, as well as manipulating the power cable to the OD drive so that it all fits behind the filter. With this advice I was able to get my filter on fairly quickly. However, I had a bit of a problem, caused by my own stupidity, but since it could conceivably happen to someone else, I'll explain. The upgrade kit includes a new data cable for the optical disk. Since the dust cover covers the socket on the back of the optical disk drive into which the data cable plugs, I mistakenly pluged it into the socket right about the correct one, which is actually a socket on my hard disk drive. Well, needless to say, my system was confused when I rebooted, telling me I have a damaged disk which it couldn't repair. And my optical disk was dead. Before I figured out what I had done wrong, I managed to screw up my hard disk so that I eventually had to rebuild the whole thing, losing some of my work in the process. Moral: put the cable back into the socket you pulled it out of in the first place! I felt so stupid. It helped to find out from my local NeXT tech rep that he had done the same thing before as well. It _is_ rather easy to do. By the way, I'd like to put in a plug for the people at NeXT. The local systems engineer responded to my plea for help-- which I issued before I discovered that I hadn't actually _destroyed_ my optical drive, so I was rather frantic-- by calling me on his own time the evening of the day I asked for help. So it goes to prove, that, yes, the people at NeXT are very busy, but they do care; they do try. -- =============================================================== David Carpenter dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP St. Joseph's University dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu Philadelphia, PA 19131
nwc@galileo.shearson.com (Nick Christopher) (03/20/91)
> The upgrade kit includes a new data cable for the > optical disk. Is that what thats for :-) Darn I had wondered why I had parts left over... Should I switch cables? I reused the existing one and things seem fine. \n -- \n Nicholas Christopher (212) 464-3837 Internet: nwc@sisyphus.shearson.com uunet: uunet!sisyphus.shearson.com!nwc