Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!hsdndev!cmcl2!lanl!beta.lanl.gov.!mikeg From: mikeg@c3.c3.lanl.gov (Michael P. Gerlek) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Installing HDs upside-down Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 18:31:00 GMT References: <1991Apr21.184024.13484@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@lanl.gov Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Lines: 26 In-reply-to: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu's message of 21 Apr 91 18:40:24 GMT In article <1991Apr21.184024.13484@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > I always had the impression that installing HDs upside-down was bad. Then > I replaced my internal SCSI drive, and noticed that it was originally installed > upside-down. This struck me as surprising; nonethless, I installed my > new drive upside-down. :^) The drive I replaced had no problems with it, ever, > so I'm assuming upside-down drives aren't a problem. > > Is it preferable to install hard drives upside-down?! Doesn't make a (bit) of difference, because the bits are stored on the disk vertically, and an upside-down 1 or 0 is still readable as a 1 or 0 - ones and zeros are vertically symmetrical. :-) :-) Of course, you may wind up reading all your files backwards (endianness, et al)... -- -[mpg] mikeg@lanl.gov "The ducks are back!"