Emax

No..you don't want to surround it with anything. It will over heat. You
could allow for air circulation while adding more plastic ( some wood
...what ever) to the near by areas to attenuate the sound. Maybe self stick
foam insulation.
Or perhaps you need to turn up you montor speakers a bit : )

Bob

Steve Adam wrote:

> While we're on the subject, is it practical / safe / possible /
> sensible to sound proof an internal drive? I know I'll never silence
> it completely but as it is it's really quite loud! I imagine you
> could wrap the whole housing in some sort of sound proofing material
> but presumably there would be heat dissapation issues and suchlike so
> to date I've never dared. I use an external ZIP now as well but I want
> to keep the internal one too - it's dead handy for live work plus
> my Zip drive takes a second or two to go out of sleep mode if you
> aren't using it consistently, which would bug me everytime I needed
> to read the OS (one of the things I definitely don't miss about using
> floppies!).
>
> --- In emax@egroups.com, vornfklorb@a... wrote:
> > My Emax II keyboard also seems to be a custom job on the internal
> HD install.
> >  It's held in place with thin metal strips with holes in them, with
> tape and
> > cardboard for shock protection.  This drive is pretty old though,
> and my
> > external SCSI Zip blows it away, so that's what I normally use.
> Plus the HD
> > is louder...
> >
> > PF
>
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