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From: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is it harmful to disk drives?
Message-ID: <4459@plains.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 90 04:00:57 GMT
References: <24435@usc.edu>
Reply-To: kperson@plains.UUCP (Kerry Person)
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Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <24435@usc.edu> wan@pollux.usc.edu (Qiang Wan) writes:
>
>I saw many people put their PC main bodies beside their desks,
>with the box sitting vertically. I am wondering if it is
>harmful to the disk drives (especially the hard disk drives) for
>them to operate in the vertical position. Nowhere in the manual
>of the hard disks seem to carry warning against dispositioned
>placement.
>
>q. wan


My MiniScribe 3650 has been running vertically for 2 years now without a 
problem.  My computer manual says that if I do this, to make sure that the
system is within +/- 5 degrees of vertical.
Just to eliminate any possible alignment problems later, I low-level formatted
the drive in that position, as well.  Although I do occasionally set it
horizontally when swapping stuff around inside, and it runs OK that way, too.

Kerry

kperson@plains.nodak.edu
nu157112@vm1.nodak.edu