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From: russell@spdcc.COM (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: can I install my hard disk upside down?
Message-ID: <5407@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 05:43:48 GMT
References: <18653@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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From article <18653@netcom.UUCP>, by young@netcom.UUCP (Michael Young):
> Would it be a problem to intall is upside down?  I found it upside
> down in a box so it's been that way for a while. 

    I really wouldn't see any reason why not, but you might want to call the
drive manufacturer just to make sure.  One good piece of advice, though, just
for safety's sake, it might be advisable to low-level format the drive in its
upside-down position.  I know that's a good idea when you place a CPU vert-
ically that has been horizontal.

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____                "Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race
\TR/  Tim Russell    in the universe, for who else believes that God has
 \/   Omaha NE       nothing better to do than sit around all day and help
 russell@spdcc.com   him out of tight spots?"            -- Alan Dean Foster