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From: haverlan@boulder.Colorado.EDU (HAVERLAND MARC BRADLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turning the computer on it's side
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Date: 1 Jun 90 14:19:46 GMT
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>Actually, it's fine to have hard drives on its side.  Just not upside down.
>So there's no reason not to turn a computer on its side, except possibly
>for cooling/ventilation problems.  Hard drive manufacturers design hard drives
>to run upright and on its side (many of the newer smaller cases mount the
>hard drive sideways).  Just be careful if you have a computer that has the
>hard drive mounted on its side when upright.  Turning the computer on it's
>side could set the hard drive in an upside down position, which most hard
>drives weren't designed for.


Most HD manufacturers will recommend re-low level formatting the drive when
you change the orientation.  Miniscribe says this simply rewrites the
low level marks that have to do with precise alignment.



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