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- From: dbockus@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Dave Bockus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can you run HD sideways?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.183158.29939@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:31:58 GMT
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- nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov (Jan A. Nijhuis) writes:
- : Subject: Re: Can you run a HD sideways?
- :
- : In article <1993Jan19.191613.16547@ico.isc.com> timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
- : >Running a hard disk upside down will damage it.
- :
- : Interesting... I've always heard that drives shouldn't be run upside down
- : because of the way stress is put on the spindle bearing. However, recently
- : I got the opportunity to take apart a Quantum Passport Datapack. These
- : appear to be regular Quantum 3.5" SCSI drives (with a different interface
- : connector) mounted UPSIDE DOWN in the carrier housing. Go figure.
- : --
- :
- : Jan A. Nijhuis,
- : nijhuis@isg.llnl.gov
- :
- : Two wrongs do not make a right, but three will get you back on the freeway.
- :
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- They say you can run them sideways, but should reformat them before use.
- This was true for the big clunky drives, in days of old, due to gravity on the
- w/r arm. This may not apply to newer drives which have less mass on the arm,
- and are generally put together better. However, I'm still running mine the
- way it is supposed to be run.
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