From: "chad" 

ok, i believe you.  seems strange to me that i have never heard that
before, and i've seen scores of drives that are seated in metal
compartments which touch the cases.  i mean, i see your point, but that's
not what i see out in my little corner of the world.  which is mostly
populated by dells.

chad - apparently doing it the wrong way all this time. :)


"David N. Barnett"  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:01:49 -0500, "chad"

> wrote in message :
>
> | ...but why on earth would they tell
> | her not to let anything metal touch the drive?
>
> Because metal conducts electrons.
>
> They want the drive to be grounded only through the power supply and
> ribbon IDE connectors.  Grounding the body of the drive to the case
> could cause ground loops.
>
> --dnb
>

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