[comp.misc] Upside-down hard drives revisited

ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/26/91)

A tech from Quantum returned my call this morning to tell me that their
105 meg drive can be installed in any orientation.

Thanks to all who responded to my initial question.

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slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman) (04/26/91)

In article <1991Apr25.195027.13549@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>A tech from Quantum returned my call this morning to tell me that their
>105 meg drive can be installed in any orientation.

Just a tip: after installing the drive in the required orientation,
do a low-level format. Some (cheap?) drives will have a small alignment
problem if the drive is mounted in another orientation than the one in
which it was LL-formatted because of gravitational forces.
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