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From: s882854@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Tehn Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Fan on the MEGAFILE 30
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.085342.24853@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 4 Jun 91 08:53:42 GMT
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whitten@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:


>I've had a megafile 30 for about a year, and the only complaint
>I've had is the loud fan.  Is it really needed, or will the
>drive run cool enough without it?  Are there any ways to quiet the
>fan, maybe replacing it with a quieter one?

>THanks,
>Chris


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> WHITTEN@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU              Chris Whittenburg, Univ. of Kansas
> WHITTEN@UKANVAX.bitnet                        Electrical Engineering
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This may not apply, but I had a SH205 hardrive in a Mega ST box. I, too, was
getting pissed off by the loud fan. I open it and noticed that the hand was not bolted to anything but it just sits into a slot. I then put some blue-tac so
that it will stick to one of the side walls to stop it vibrating against the 
surrounding wall or stop it jumping around in its slot. I was quite amaze as to
the amount of noise being removed.
I have not seen the inside of a megafile 30, but I assume that it would be the
same.
The blue-tac material is some stuff that will adhere two piece of material but
with the ability to separate them later.
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Tehn Yit Chin
s882854@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU
Royal Melbourne Insititute of Technology, Australia.
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