On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:55:39 -0500
Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> wrote:

> Quoting Harry Waddell (waddell@caravan.com):
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:37:31 -0500
> > Chuck Yerkes <chuck+nbsd@2003.snew.com> wrote:
> > > Quoting Arlen Cuss (acuss@optusnet.com.au):
> ...
> > > > but that is a v. good idea, however I'm not sure how differently
> > > > laptop hdd's are designed, and also my desktop
> > > > is a slim-line box; not really designed for additions.
> > > Bad design can always be fixed with a hacksaw.
> > 
> > Or run the pc with the case open or cover off.
> 
> Clearly spoken by someone who's never run SGIs.  SGI design, I swear,
> must involve putting stuff in until it catches fire.  Then they take
> that last thing out and sell it.
> 
> Without a case, airflow isn't directed.  Had an IT kid who kept the
> case off his box and hated our chosen motherboards cause they all
> failed.  After 3, I suggested that maybe the fans were place to
> keep air going over the hot parts and if he's put the damn
> case back on, they'd get to work.
> 

You're absolutely right. I do think a PII@450MHz should survive the install
process though. A P4 might not be so lucky.

> > > I dunno if it's an IDE drive.  There are "little IDE" to regular
> > > IDE adapters.  
> > 
> > Since the desktop machine is running windows, I'd just disconnect
> > the cable from the pc's boot drive, and plug it into the adapter.
> 
> Then never plug that windows disk in again.
> 

good point!


> > > Then stick a nonconductive, I dunno, mouse pad, under it.  
> > > No reason not to have cables and drives hanging out of
> > > your machine.  Puts hair on your chest.
> > I just turn the drive over on it's back, or let it hang vertically from
> > the ide cable inside the case because I'm lazy and fearless. Insulation
> > is for wimps.
> 
> I have a dead Apple ][+ from that attitude.  "Oh, it will never fall
> in among those point metal parts and short things out."

Maybe I should have put a smiley face at the end of that sentence, or a
least a legal disclaimer of liability.

-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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