Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!apollo!ron_b From: ron_b@apollo.HP.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Mac hard disks/orientation Message-ID: <519d66df.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Date: 17 May 91 11:12 GMT References: <1991May12.032032.20327@midway.uchicago.edu> <2772@kielo.uta.fi> <1991May16.134953.28442@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: root@apollo.HP.COM Reply-To: ron_b@apollo.HP.COM (Ronald Buttiglieri) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Apollo Division - Chelmsford, MA Lines: 38 >In article <2772@kielo.uta.fi> ccjapu@kielo.uta.fi (Jarmo Puntanen) writes: >>In article hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes: >>> >>> Laying any Mac II, Mac IIx, or Mac IIfx on its side is dangerous! >>>This is because the hard disk is mounted with the read/write arm >>>mounted sideways. This means that when you lay the Mac on its side >>>the read/write arm is forced to move against gravity. This wears the >>>arm out quicker..... >> >>To state that laying *any* Mac II or IIx (or any Mac for that matter) >>on its side is dangerous is simply not true. >>Quite a number of those machines have Seagate hard >>disks, whose installation manual (Universal Installation Handbook, >>Seagate Publication 36042-001, Rev D.) reads (p. 12): "The drive may be >>mounted horizontally ... or on either side (egde)." > One thing I haven't seen mentioned here in this thread is that according to most manufacturers, HDs can be mounted on their side or flat (generally speaking, of course) but should be reformatted if changing orientation! (okay, how many different ways can you net-folk read into the above statement?^) In other words, if you decide to tip your (currently formatted) Mac IIn on it's side, then according to manufacturers, you should back up the drive, tip it, then reformat the drive and finally restore the backup. Hey, I don't explain 'em, I just tell 'em like I read 'em. Just my two-bits, Ron --- Ron Buttiglieri "Nobody tells me what to do, not even me!" ron_b@apollo.com - Andrew "Dice" Clay ----