Re: Desktop case: PHASE 2

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4rfhu6$bdi@asia.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:
>Boy, this has turned out to be almost as crazy as the black racked GS. :)
>I have some questions I desperately need answers to...
>
>1 -	Is there a jumper on the RamFAST that I can attach an LED (as a 
>	SCSI-bus activity indicator), or do I have to attach it to the
>	activity connector on the hard drive?

Even if there were, would it be usefull?  I have my hard drives, all three
of them, in a mini-tower, and have connected the individual drive activity
lights up to the assorted leds on the front panel.  Connecting a light to
the interface board would not allow me to tell which drive is being
accessed.  Not that I normally need to, but...

>2 -	Are there any 3.5 drives built for a drive bay that work as a 
>	normal 800k drive when plugged into the smart port?

I'ld love to find one, but one that will also do 1.4M would be better and
probably is available.

>3 -	The motherboard is resting directly on a thin piece of packing 
>	foam (the kind that ships with motherboards) to prevent shorts.  
>	Should I be worried about heat buildup?  I have a fan that will 
>	soon be blowing directly on the motherboard... good enough?

I haven't put my mother board in the case yet.  But, why not use several
short spacers to hold the board off the metal case?  Most heat will be on
the component side, but having natural air flow below will be helpfull.

John

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