Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekfdi!bobb
From: bobb@tekfdi.TEK.COM (Robert Bales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Sitting Ami on end
Keywords: disk alignment meatloaf
Message-ID: <2273@tekfdi.TEK.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 88 15:39:20 GMT
References: <5614@utah-cs.UUCP> <2307@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: bobb@tekfdi.UUCP (Robert Bales)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <2307@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>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.

Possibly due to magnetic fields from the monitor, instead of the drive's being
on end. Possibly.

   Bob Bales
   Tektronix, Inc.

I help Tektronix make their instruments. They don't help me make my opinions.