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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sitting Ami on end
Keywords: disk alignment meatloaf
Message-ID: <4943@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 88 05:56:40 GMT
References: <5614@utah-cs.UUCP> <2307@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <2307@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article ... u-jmolse%sunset.utah.edu@utah-cs.UUCP (John M. Olsen) writes:
>> I think this came up ages ago, but does anyone know whether it will mess
>> up drive alignment to stand an Amiga on it's end?
>
>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.

We talking about the Commodore External Floppy drives ? I've had one
(great sample space, huh ?) on its side since I got it at xmas and
hav'nt had any problems.

Must be the air in Tejas or something...


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richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                               {backbone}!gryphon!richard