[G5] Adding Disk Drives

[Nick Scalise]

On Monday, April 18, 2005, at 10:10AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

>At 10:01 AM -0400 4/18/05, Neil Cadsawan wrote:
>>the side and plastic shield off, there are 4 screws that Apple 
>>provides inside the case for you.  Put these screws on your drive, 
>>so it can slide into the bay.  Slide the drive in and make sure it 
>>clicks in.  The power and data
>
>Really?  Where on earth do they hide the screws?  I ended up using 
>some that I had laying around, but they don't fit as well as the 
>proper screws would.

If you go here:

<http://www.info.apple.com/images/kbase/86790/86790_1.jpg>

You can see four black dots in a vertical row near the drive bay, those are the screws to use.

However, if you go here: <http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/doityourself/storage.html> and download the PDF, <http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0806.pdf> the instructions on page 7 tell you to use the screws that come with the drive. That must be to mitigate any differences in screw threading provided by the mfr. 

Yet, in this PDF <http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/pdf/g5/073-0851.pdf> on the same page, it instructs you to use the Apple provided screws.

So, if you find the screws in the case, and they fit the hard drive you purchase, use them. 

However, if you do not find the screws in the case, use the screws that come with the drive. ;-p


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Nick Scalise
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