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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: can I install my hard disk upside down?
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Date: 13 Dec 90 03:39:29 GMT
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In article <18653@netcom.UUCP> young@netcom.UUCP (Michael Young) writes:
| 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. 

  In general drive are designed to be *operated* flat, or on either
side. They are not designed to operate upside down or on their front or
back. The effects of doing this will vary from vendor to vendor, but I
wouldn't unless I was willing to write off the drive if the experiment
failed.

  If the tabs are just for mechanical mounting I would be a lot more
willing to remove them than run the drive upside down. Also, if possible
bend them back and forth until they break, rather than cutting or
filing, which create little bits of metal.
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