Drive dimensions (was dual boot)

[Doug Lawlor]

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.
>
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