Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2000 internals, Fan, etc... Message-ID: <8010@gollum.twg.com> Date: 29 Sep 90 01:12:01 GMT References: <61050002@hpcljms.HP.COM> <14648@cbmvax.commodore.com> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 27 In article <14648@cbmvax.commodore.com> bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) writes: >In article <61050002@hpcljms.HP.COM> brians@hpcljms.HP.COM (Brian Sullivan) writes: >I wouldn't worry about it. I have my 2500/30 with 2 Q40s drives (one >on the card and one in the bay) up on it's edge so that the one that >was formatted flat is on edge and the one that was formatted on edge is >flat. Nary a problem to date. And it's on 24 hours a day. And I have >essentially the same setup on my machine at home. Same story. You can't do that successfully with all drives. On my 386 SysV box here at work I formatted the drive with it horzontal then mounted the system in one of those floor mounts.. presto-whizzo a tower configuration. (oh boy..) But since then the OS has been finding bad blocks about 7-8 a week. Prior to this the disk had been operating fine for months. I assume that putting it on its side is the culprit. The drive: A Toshiba MK56FB-1 (105 MB ST-506). It's good to know that Quantum's aren't fazed by this. -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Sign me up for one "I survived Jaka's Story" T-shirt!