RE: CD drive

-> WC>>> If it tests OK I'll slap it in the H.P. in the next
-> WC>>> couple of weeks. It worked in a previous machine. 

-> ->> I hope it works for you. 

-> WC> Nope, drawer won't respond. Come to think of it that's how
-> WC> I wiped out the NEC by plugging the connector in offset two
-> WC> pins on the end outside :-( 

-> WC> Power through the wrong junctions must have fried the
-> WC> semiconductors. 

-> WC> Goes with getting old eyesight. 

-> I would like to have a chance to hit whoever is responsible for
-> the _lack_ of goof-proofing of IDE cables on the head with a
-> rolled up newspaper at least 100 times or until they were
-> unconscious. I've plugged cables in off by two myself and I
-> can't see a good reason they didn't put an offset slot in the
-> connector to let you know when you 'miss' all those little pins
-> (reaching into a place where you can't even _see_ the pins
-> etc.).   

Or put a plastic bracket around them.
Both the 486 and this machine have them and 
they're goof proof, the NEC did not and is
dead. 
Feel a bit less the idiot now I know someone else has done this.

-> I suppose a bunch of short cable extensions to allow me to do
-> this in the light of day where I can see what I'm doing might
-> help but no one does that either. :-\                    

Only way to go is build from a kit with selected components.
The versitile Soyo board kit I saw at Tiger direct has a mid tower
case, 5 5" bays and 3 3 1/2

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