calling all HP7970 tape owners....

Gee, my 7970E is still on a dolly. And definitely no bracket came with mine. I hadn't realized I needed one. Looking at this monster drive, there is a lip on the right side that you can access only if you swivel out the whole front panel that holds the tape mechanism, as if you were servicing the unit. That lip has the holes for mounting on the rack. So far so good. On the left side though, there is just the hinges that allows the aforementioned panel to swivel out. Right where the rack mounting holes should be. No access there to screw anything! How the hell does the darn bracket work? You'd attach the bracket first to the rack, then slide in the drive and screw it in to the bracket *from the inside* of the opened unit, while delicately balancing 130 pounds of tape drive? Yikes! I think I am just saying I might need one bracket ;-) Marc -----Original Message----- From: Jay West [mailto:jwest at classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 7:38 AM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: calling all HP7970 tape owners.... Ok, just making sure there wasn't some way to do it without the bracket that I was overlooking. While I do have brackets for all mine, I am sure that at some point I will get a unit I don't have a bracket for so I was investigating having "modern brackets" made as a "just in case". If there was in fact no obvious other way to mount them - I figured people may want me to get more than one made. Speak up quickly if you need one.... J