Re: hard drive orientation question

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

arekusu (eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: After moving recently, I found my new desk rather lacking space in which
: to place my IIgs, so I was forced to stand my external 80meg quantum
: prodrive on it's side, next to the GS case/monitor. I am concerned about
: any possible long-term effects on the disk mech that this new upright
: orientation could cause. The drive verifies and works just fine now,
: but data corruption months or years down the line is definitely something 
: I wish to avoid...

I can't speak for *your* drive, but at work, I have an Amiga 3000UX with
an attached mini-tower for the disk drives.  These include two Seagate 1Gb
drives, and a pair of smaller Quantum drives.  These are all SCSI drives
with 3.5" mechanisms.  The literature with at least one of the drives
indicated that orientation is unimportant (in fact, in MS-DOS mini-towers,
drives are often mounted sideways).  This is good because these 3.5"
drives are mounted on the sides of a 5.25" tower.  So far, so good...no
problems yet.

Now if I could just put one of those big drives on my ][gs... 8-)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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