Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!tove.cs.umd.edu!folta From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Mac hard disks/orientation Message-ID: <34603@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 17 May 91 13:55:56 GMT References: <2772@kielo.uta.fi> <6099@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1991May17.020122.18647@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 12 From what I have read, you can orient a disk any way you want. BUT, I have also heard that re-orienting a disk technically requires a reformatting. For example, moving from a horizontal positioning to a vertical one means that the heads encounter a different resistance (due to gravity), so they might not seek quite the same. Don't know if this is true now, or if it was just true years ago. (Although I did just read it a year or so ago.) -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)