Step 6: Remove Your Cabling



Remove the cable connector retaining screws from the rear of the
MAP5021 Dual-Bay Burly Enclosure.

Remove the four screws. Don't lose them. You will need them again.

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Converting Your Enclosure Cabling

1. This step explains how to remove the 50-pin PVC ribbon cabling that is included with the raw enclosure so you can replace it with lavish 68-pin Granite Teflon or Granite Thermal Plastic Olefin. If you forget why you are doing this, read about Granite internal ribbon cabling again.

2. Remove the four screws holding the 50-pin Centronics cable connectors into the backplane. Look at them carefully so you can recognize them. You will need them when you install your 68-pin cable. Put them into your drive egg shell packing material as a group, and keep them organized.

3. Carefully extract the 50-pin IDC ribbon cable from the inside of the enclosure. Put the cable assembly in a plastic bag and then label it. You may need it sometime in the future.

4. Be careful inside the enclosure! Carefully route your other miscellaneous cables inside--power, CD-ROM audio, and LED--to the sides, where they won't interfere. If you pull your front LED wires out of the front of the enclosure, grab your forceps or tweezers and carefully replace them. If they are annoyingly loose (which is rare), place a dab of hot glue on them. That'll hold them.

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