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From: phils@tekigm2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amigas on their sides
Message-ID: <1528@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 03:15:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 03:15:07 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Mar-87 07:17:26 EST
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Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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<--- eat this, line eater: IBM --->

Just a thought based on some previous experience.

Once upon a time, I worked for a company at which we sold disk drive
subsystems consisting of other people's drives mounted in our own
chassis/cabinets. When 48tpi drives began to evolve into 96tpi, we found
that our method of mounting became a lot more critical, because the drives
could easily be torqued out of shape, destroying the alignment of the drive.

Now, from what I've been able to gather the Amiga is not quite as rigid
(mechanically) as one might hope, positioning it on it's side might just be
causing the drive to be torqued enough to cause problems (remember, we're
now up to 135tpi). Since the internal drive is mounted on studs molded into
the plastic cabinet, it's certainly not impossible.
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Phil Staub              tektronix!tekigm!phils    (206) 253-5634
Tektronix, Inc., ISI Engineering
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