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From: jafo@miranda.UUCP (Sean Reifschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re:  Is there a problem turning amiga w/ HD on its
Message-ID: <jafo.4204@miranda.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 91 15:44:57 GMT
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In article <7710@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>We go through hundreds of winnies at work, and they can survive lots of things,
>but one thing that's guaranteed to cause soft errors is running a disk in a
>different orientation than it's formatted. Format it while it's in the side
>and it'll run like a trooper.

I never had that problem.  I had a Seagate ST-277N (65MB SCSI), and just over
2 years ago I formatted it in the horizontal position.  Mor most of the next
2 years, it was running vertically.  No problems.

Then I sold it to a friend so I could upgrade to 200MB, and within the next
couple of weeks, he complained of stuction.  <Sigh>

Sean
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From the desk of Sean Reifschneider.  Isn't Amiga UUCP great?  Thanks Matt.

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