12 Feb
2006
12 Feb
'06
6:29 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:
But no drill press or serious holding hardware to do
that in.
Surely you can improvise, just screw the metal bracket to a piece of
flat wooden surface (e.g. leftovers from IKEA bookcases). I also find
that its easier if you start with a very thin bit to drill a guide hole.
One further complication is that the ones for floppies
were designed to hold
the drive right flush up against the front panel, while the ones for HDs
held it much further back, giving better airflow. If I *did* drill holes
for the purpose the HD would be much too far forward, depending on which
case I was sticking it in.
Ah, yes, in that case you may want to copy a scheme that was used on
Olivetti servers. These had 10-15 5mm holes on the plastic panel sitting
in front of the drive (the thing you remove if you want to mount a tape
drive or CDROM). These provided more than adequate ventilation for the
drives which were placed just behind the panel. I have used the same trick
on a machine that had a bunch of Seagate 75Gb SCSI drives (these were
getting real hot) and it allowed sufficient cooling to let them operate
24/7 in an office environment.
**vp