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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Seagate Drives
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Date: 6 Sep 90 22:00:44 GMT
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In <3879@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, cs472119@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs472119) writes:
>Hi.  Anyone know of any reason why seagate drives aren't supposed to be
>mounted upside down, as the seagate manual says, u^?  I'd like to install mine
>in my trumpcard 500 case, which requires mounting with the circuit board up.
>Is this warning only to guard against the weight of the drive being supported
>by the top cover?
>Thanks,

No.. many drives will not work in an upside down position, some giving
read/write problems, others catastrophically destroying their own bearings.
Whoever designed a case that requires an upside down drive mounting should be
shot and pissed on.

-larry

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