Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!ajohnson
From: ajohnson@killer.UUCP (Andy Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: standing AT computers on end
Summary: Computers on their sides are ok
Message-ID: <2787@killer.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 04:00:43 GMT
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Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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I work every day with computers made by SBE, Inc.  We have over 70
of these systems out in the field that run 24 hours per day, 7 days
per week.

They all have one thing in common... their hard drives are on their sides.
We have never had a failure in almost 2 years because of this strange
orientation.

Also, a friend of mine has run his AT for 2 years on its side.  One thing
he mentioned is that if you do want to run it on its side, it it a good idea
to format the drive that way.