Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!endor!olson From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Standing Mac II Base Unit on end: is this safe? Message-ID: <440@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 6 Oct 88 17:59:58 GMT References: <3434@cs.utexas.edu> <4215@polya.Stanford.EDU> <316@ivucsb.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: olson@endor.UUCP (Eric K. Olson) Organization: Lexington Software Design, 72A Lowell St., Lexington, MA 02173 Lines: 14 I have heard that hard disks like to be used in the same orientation (horiz vs. vertical) that they were formatted in. It makes sense to me, so I reformatted my hard disk after turning my Mac II on it's (Kensington Stand) side about 4 months ago. I've had no problems. -Eric Lexington Software Design: Tomorrow's Software Yesterday Eric K. Olson olson@endor.harvard.edu harvard!endor!olson (Name) (Arpanet) (Usenet)