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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Upside-down hard drives revisited
Message-ID: <1018@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 26 Apr 91 07:47:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.195027.13549@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: DataCount Register Informatici, Wierden, The Netherlands
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In article <1991Apr25.195027.13549@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>A tech from Quantum returned my call this morning to tell me that their
>105 meg drive can be installed in any orientation.

Just a tip: after installing the drive in the required orientation,
do a low-level format. Some (cheap?) drives will have a small alignment
problem if the drive is mounted in another orientation than the one in
which it was LL-formatted because of gravitational forces.
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