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From: cy5@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Conway Yee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: can I install my hard disk upside down?
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.171840.22768@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 17:18:40 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.033658.7360@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu> millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>From article <18653@netcom.UUCP>, by young@netcom.UUCP (Michael Young):
>> I just acquired a full height hard drive when we closed one of our
>> offices and was attempting to install it on my XT clone.  The problem
>> is that the drive bay configuration does not match the drive too well,
>> it only fits upside down.  It would fit correctly if the drive didn't
>> have these little tabs that were used to hold it in the machine it
>> used to be in, I'm not really interested in doing surgery on the drive.
>> 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. 
>
>	Last year, I somehow managed to mount my Seagate 251-1 upside down.
>I have no idea how, but I've never had much of any problem with the drive.
>Granted, I keep my CPU on its side, but I've never had any problems with it
>in any orientation.

Thus, the net effect is that the drive is mounted on its side.

To Michael Young, the original poster, what exactly is it that is preventing
you from mounting the drive right side up?  If it is the rails, then just
remount them in the proper holes.  Many mounting rails come with several
sets of screw holes.  If you screw them onto the drive using the wrong
ones, then it will not go into the drive bay properly.

In thinking about  the shape of the drive, I can not think of anything
else that would non-symmetrically stick out to prevent proper fit into 
the drive bay.  


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