dale@amiga.UUCP (03/03/87)
If you have problems with disks it may be partially due to the disk drive only being shielded on 3 sides (top,left,right) and not the bottom. It would be like putting your monitor underneath the amiga, possible the radiation may invade the disk drive much easier than having the monitor on top. Just a guess. Dale
phils@tekigm2.UUCP (03/04/87)
<--- eat this, line eater: IBM ---> Just a thought based on some previous experience. Once upon a time, I worked for a company at which we sold disk drive subsystems consisting of other people's drives mounted in our own chassis/cabinets. When 48tpi drives began to evolve into 96tpi, we found that our method of mounting became a lot more critical, because the drives could easily be torqued out of shape, destroying the alignment of the drive. Now, from what I've been able to gather the Amiga is not quite as rigid (mechanically) as one might hope, positioning it on it's side might just be causing the drive to be torqued enough to cause problems (remember, we're now up to 135tpi). Since the internal drive is mounted on studs molded into the plastic cabinet, it's certainly not impossible. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Staub tektronix!tekigm!phils (206) 253-5634 Tektronix, Inc., ISI Engineering P.O.Box 3500, M/S C1-904, Vancouver, Washington 98668