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From: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Asked before: keeping computer vertical
Message-ID: <426@wicat.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 22:17:18 GMT
References: <2209@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
Organization: WICAT Systems, Orem, Utah
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In article <2209@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
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>Over the weekend I bought the AT that Adam Erickson had advertised over
>the net.  He had the system unit nicely stored vertically under his
>desk, as I know many people do.  This certainly seems attractive and
>convenient, but can it be a hazard to the disk or anything? It will soon
>have two Seagate drives in it. 

Modern hard disk drives are quite happy in either a horizontal or
vertical position.  For best results, you should do the low-level
format of a disk drive in the position that it will be used in.

In other words, go ahead and run it vertically, but when you add
your other disk drive(s), format them with the machine in a vertical
position.

BTW hard disks are generally NOT happy tilted more than a few
degrees from straight horizontal or straight vertical.


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