[ale] removable drive cases

[Frank Zamenski]

Related question, sort of:
Anyone have any bad experiences with those removable 3.5" drive rack/drive
case combos? Those cheapie built 'CE certified' (whatever that means)
plastic jobbies that go for anywhere from $10 to $20 each for IDE? (There
also exists a model for SCSI, with and without fan, which seems certain
death to SCSI hds in the latter case.) I've used them for swapping OSs and
2ndry hds, very convenient, generally seem to work well IF the hd container
case is of course shoved in tight and locked in, but the wiring often has a
dull and shoddy soldiered appearance, and in fact I've had two (fortunately
cheap no-name) mobo's suddenly go unexplainably dead on me in the recent
past, with the only common denominator being both those boxes had those
cases in them. I've thus lately shied away from using these anymore.
Comments? Any hardware gurus have any tips on checking those out for
potential shorting, using a pocket VOM for instance, before using them? TIA.
--Frank

----- Original Message -----
 From: "Mandrake" <mandrake at mandrake.net>
To: "Jay Finch" <horus at larp.com>
Cc: "Chris Fowler" <chrisf at computone.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Monitor Switch


> On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 04:35:56PM -0500, Jay Finch wrote:
> > At 03:51 PM 12/28/1999 -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > >Does anyone know where I can get a mechanical system switch.  This will
> > >allow me to share 2 ore more PC's with 1 monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
I
> > >want mechanical because it is cheapest.  Hopefully a place local or on
the
> > >internet that can send one in a reasonable amount of time.
> >
> >          I've found that Microcenter in Marietta has them fairly
> > inexpensively... (I'm doing the same with two of my home machines...)
The
> > picture quality isn't stellar on the monitor, but it works great.  (I
think
> > I paid $10-15 for the box, and another $15-25 for the cables...)
>
> Let me be the first person to warn you that by using one of these cheap
> mechanical switches you're inviting yourself for some serious hardware
> problems.  I've had a keyboard connector on a motherboard fry thanks to
one of
> these things.
>
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