bennete@nyssa.cs.orst.edu (Erik John Bennett) (02/27/88)
Hello, This is my first posting, so I am not certain that it will get through. Can an Amiga B2000 with two 3 1/2" drives rest on it's side? I am out of desk space. E-mail me with responses. bennete@nyssa.cs.orst.edu Erik Bennett 140 NW 13th Corvallis, OR 97330
peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (02/29/88)
I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much, but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK. -- -- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva `-_-' -- normally ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter U -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (03/01/88)
In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much, >but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK. I've had my external floppy on its side ever since I upgraded from an A1000 to an A2000 in October. It has had *heavy* use, and I have experience no problems at all. I've had this external disk drive on my A1000 since the introduction of the A1000 many moons ago. And all I have is two floppies, no hard disk yet. (Well, I did try to use a C Ltd drive for a while, but don't get me started on that...) In fact, I don't seem to have any problems with disks getting trashed, bad spots forming, AmigaDOS going off the deep end or anything. I even have a 68010 in my A2000. How do I do it? I don't run broken software. Or, when I do run broken software, I don't blame the operating system in the computer. I don't use no-name disks, but DSDD Sony and 3M. You'd think from reading this newsgroup that the disk hardware is flaky; it just ain't so. Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming
cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) (03/01/88)
In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much, >but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK. Well, I've had my external floppy drive on its side for over two years, heavily used for program development, with no ill effects. -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp "Docking complete... Docking complete... Docking complete..."
hbo@hub.ucsb.edu (Howard Owen) (03/01/88)
In article <2383@umd5.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes: >In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >>I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much, >>but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK. > >I've had my external floppy on its side ever since I upgraded from an A1000 >to an A2000 in October. It has had *heavy* use, and I have experience no >problems at all. I've had this external disk drive on my A1000 since I had my 1000 mounted on it's side for over a year with nary a problem on the internal floppy drive. With that experience to go by, I had no nervousness about setting my 2000 on it's side when I got it. I have had the same kind of good luck with the new machine's internal floppy. >Louis A. Mamakos WA3YMH Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU -- Howard Owen, Programmer/Analyst PHYSNET/HEPNET/SPAN: SBPHY::HBO Physics Computer Services internet: hbo@sbphy.ucsb.edu University of California, Santa Barbara bitnet: HBO@SBITP.BITNET "I am not a pay TV service!" PLink: HBO
bryce@eris (Bryce Nesbitt) (03/03/88)
In article <708@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >I wouldn't stick the floppies on their sides if you're going to use them much, >but if you do mainly hard-disk stuff it should be OK. From the manufacturer's specs on several drives I seen, sideways is ok. If rotating your drive in 90 degree increments causes problems, then your drives are probably broken. Actaully, it might help. I once had a drive that would only read disks while upside down! BTW: The Delay(0L) fix is in patch_2. Availible RSN. |\_/| . ACK!, NAK!, EOT!, SOH! {O_o} . Bryce Nesbitt (") BIX: mleeds (temporarily) U USENET: bryce@eris.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!eris!bryce
mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (03/06/88)
Louis Mamakos writes: > You'd think from reading this newsgroup that the disk hardware is flaky; it > just ain't so. I have had an A1000 for about a year and a half now. The internal drive was somewhat flaky when I bought it (it was a reconditioned model), but it was still within operable limits. I had trouble formatting disks that other Amigas would format, but other than that I had few problems. The problem arose when I turned the machine on its side. I had an increase in the number of disk problems, and at times I couldn't boot the machine because it would not read Kickstart. Several months later, the drive failed entirely. I took it to the computer store, and waited two weeks for a new disk drive. A month after the new drive was installed, it wouldn't write data to the disk anymore. I brought it back to the store, waited another week, was told "it passes diagnostics," and took it home. Still had the problem. Took it back to the store, told them exactly what to do to reproduce the problem. I was told the replacement disk drive was also defective. I waited another three weeks for them to order a new disk drive. In the meantime, I gave up on the work I had to do for the computer graphics course I was taking due to lack of Amiga (I have an incomplete in the course pending my back assignments). So from where I sit, I am not enamored with 3 1/2" drive technology at all. I guess the point of all this is that turning the computer on its side *DOES* have an effect on drive performance, though you may have problems only if your drive is out of spec. In any event, I certainly won't do it again. --M Michael Portuesi / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" --Laurie Anderson, "Language is a Virus"