I managed to get the drive installed. What we did was take the orignal clips I had, cut off the end furthest from the front of the drive and substitute a screw for the last pin. This made the clips line up with the holes in the drive. Doug At 12:43 AM 31/10/2001, you wrote: >You should contact Dell about this. All 3.5 inch hard drives have the same >holes in them. This is a single industry standard. But (and this is a >kicker) a 3.5 inch floppy has fewer (and thus different) holes. I suspect >reasons start with the fact that a floppy drive normally sticks out >further. In fact to place holes in the same places would place a hole in >part of the trim. > >You may be able to solve the problem by simply ordering the right >slides. Thinking of the way the delss are assembled it should work. Funny >thing is that just yesterday I was working on a system where I could have >checked this. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > >"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at >a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." > - President George Bush > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
