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From: kasper@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sitting Ami on end
Message-ID: <4686@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 21 Jul 88 06:42:47 GMT
References: <2307@sugar.uu.net> <4303@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kasper@csli.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <4303@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>in article <2307@sugar.uu.net>, peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) says:
>> Keywords: disk alignment meatloaf
>
>> I put one of my drives on its side next to the monitor and got significantly
>> worse reliability. Reliability is none too good anyway, so I gave up the nice
>> compact set up and went back to having everything spread out right away.
>
>That sounds like a problem specific to being next to the monitor, rather than
>being on the side.  Many monitors put out more than enough energy to occasionally
>Dave Haynie  "The 32 Bit Guy"     Commodore-Amiga  "The Crew That Never Rests"

This reminds me of an experience I had in the old c64 days. If I put the
floppy drive on one side of the monitor I had a lot of problems, if I put
it on the other side of the monitor there was none! So maybe try moving it
around?


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