draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (dday) (10/07/88)
Hello Everyone, As of late there has been quite a bit of discussion on standing a PC vertically and whether the hard drive will survive. I can just tell you about my results. I have a home-made PC XT clone (mail order parts - assembled in a basement) with a Seagate ST-238R Hard drive using an Adaptec (RLL) card. Now most people would say I am in trouble already, well I guess I got the best drive that Seagate ever made. Not only is the drive going on 2 years of daily use but for the last 18 months the PC has been sitting on end vertically. I have on some occasions (2 to be exact) gotten read/write errors on the drive. One time I was able to recover the data and mark the sector bad. The next time I wasn't so lucky. I had to do a low-level format and then re-buil the disk. It was more of a pain than anything else because as a well trained professional person I had a recent full backup. (I do them one time a week.) Dave Dave Draper UUCP: decvax!elrond!bu-tyng!draper Internet: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu Boston University Corporate Education Center 72 Tyng Road Tyngsboro MA 01879 649-9731 x14