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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1994
Michael S. Good, Byron, MN (US);
Douglas Wayne Johnson, Rochester, MN (US);
Subrahmanyan Nagarajan, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian Lee Rappel, Grand Meadow, MN (US);
Laurence J. Schmidt, Rochester, MN (US);
Dennis Ronald Ziegenhagen, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a disk drive for storing data which includes disks and an actuator mounted on a frame or first housing part. A second housing part, when joined with the first housing part, forms a disk enclosure. The disk enclosure includes rails which have openings therein for mounting the disk drive to the user frame of a computer system. Deformable inserts are placed into the openings in the rails and screws are passed through openings in the frame of the computer system and into the inserts in the openings in the rails of the disk drive. The inserts are more forgiving and result in less distortion than in a mounting system in which the screws are passed directly into tapped holes in the rails of the disk drive. The inserts also electrically insulate the disk drive from the user frame of the computer system.