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In article <na.d90200476f.a60120pgarnett@argonet.co.uk>, Philip Garnett
<URL:mailto:pgarnett@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Er.....I will say this very quitly for fear of being laughed at. I bought a
> new hard dive for RiscPC 700 (Quautum Fireball 1.28GB) and on receiving it
> through the post, there were no screws or anything to fix it into the spair
> 3.5" drive bay in the second slice (I want both dives set up). Should there
> be or is the dive held be the case or something. I apologise for this
> question but I had a IBM before and I'm not familiar with Acorn case design.
> 
> Thanks for any help.

I think your supplier should have included fixing screws. The drive will
have threaded holes (or whatever the technical term is) in the base which
should match with holes in the drive bay. (If they don't match it's a simple
matter to drill the plastic.) All you need is a couple of screws to fix it
in.

I once bought a small Quantum drive from Alsystems which arrived without any
screws, and being in a hurry to fit it I tried to get them from Maplins. They
had nothing with the correct thread, which isn't BA or Metric. Eventually
Alsytems sent me a set with apologies for forgetting to include them. I'd
still like to know what the correct thread is though.

-- 
Mike Lane