Format away, little drive. And then, when you least expect it...
Feb. 10th, 2008 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, to end the drive space debacle, as of yesterday I have my supertransmitting supercable. Hooray!
...but the drive bay is sideways, and my new cable has plugs that kind of stick out. And where it's attached to the drive, it's perfectly aligned with a support thingy for the side panel of the case. Leaving the side panel off forever is always an option (and in summer, with my older machine, I've been known to relieve it of the other side too. But not the top; the top is, unfortunately, structural. Boo.)
So, today's mission OF DOOM was to fix this problem.
In what may be the least extreme casemod ever, my side panel is now down to two-thirds of a support thingy, my new drive is working perfectly, I've finally seen Razor, and as of this afternoon the cake is most certainly not a lie.
And, on the subject of cake and lies: Portal broken-image icons!

...but the drive bay is sideways, and my new cable has plugs that kind of stick out. And where it's attached to the drive, it's perfectly aligned with a support thingy for the side panel of the case. Leaving the side panel off forever is always an option (and in summer, with my older machine, I've been known to relieve it of the other side too. But not the top; the top is, unfortunately, structural. Boo.)
So, today's mission OF DOOM was to fix this problem.
In what may be the least extreme casemod ever, my side panel is now down to two-thirds of a support thingy, my new drive is working perfectly, I've finally seen Razor, and as of this afternoon the cake is most certainly not a lie.
And, on the subject of cake and lies: Portal broken-image icons!



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Date: 2008-02-11 01:05 am (UTC)Or somesuch.
But let me not interfere with your X-TR33M c@se mod fun
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Date: 2008-02-11 04:46 am (UTC)It's much the same story for swapping the drive cables - the new drive sits right under the old one, and both cables plug into the same spot. Swapping them would leave exactly the same problem, and the cable for the optical drive doesn't reach far enough to even think about using it instead.
So, the simplest solution was to take out part of a piece of metal, the sole structural function of which is to keep keen yet clumsy users from bending the side panel.
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Date: 2008-02-11 11:26 pm (UTC)Plus, it gave me something to post about, so it's not all bad.