dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) (02/02/91)
In article <16341@chopin.udel.edu> jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes: |Title says it all.. I have recently put my Amiga 2000 with 40 Meg Quantum |on it's side [...] |It looks sharp., but I wanna check before I do any damage... You may have noticed that the card slots in the Bodega Bay are sideways. It's not real obvious in the ad unless you look closely at the cut-away drawing, and it's not mentioned in the ad copy, but it is so. The long and the short of all this is that it's a fair bet that California Access thinks its OK to put hard drives on their side. |E Pluribus // Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or | Unix // jeremy@freezer.it.udel.edu (line 1 = jeremym)
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (02/05/91)
We go through hundreds of winnies at work, and they can survive lots of things, but one thing that's guaranteed to cause soft errors is running a disk in a different orientation than it's formatted. Format it while it's in the side and it'll run like a trooper. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider) (02/16/91)
In article <7710@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >We go through hundreds of winnies at work, and they can survive lots of things, >but one thing that's guaranteed to cause soft errors is running a disk in a >different orientation than it's formatted. Format it while it's in the side >and it'll run like a trooper. I never had that problem. I had a Seagate ST-277N (65MB SCSI), and just over 2 years ago I formatted it in the horizontal position. Mor most of the next 2 years, it was running vertically. No problems. Then I sold it to a friend so I could upgrade to 200MB, and within the next couple of weeks, he complained of stuction. <Sigh> Sean -- From the desk of Sean Reifschneider. Isn't Amiga UUCP great? Thanks Matt. uunet.uu.net!ccncsu.colostate.edu!ncuug!miranda!jafo