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From: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu (dday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Drives mounted Vertically
Message-ID: <1735@bu-tyng.bu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 23:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: draper@bu-tyng.UUCP (dday)
Organization: Boston University Corporate Education Center, Tyngsboro, MA
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Hello Everyone,

	As of late there has been quite a bit of discussion on
standing a PC vertically and whether the hard drive will survive.
I can just tell you about my results. I have a home-made PC XT
clone (mail order parts - assembled in a basement) with a Seagate
ST-238R Hard drive using an Adaptec (RLL) card. Now most people would
say I am in trouble already, well I guess I got the best drive that
Seagate ever made. Not only is the drive going on 2 years of daily
use but for the last 18 months the PC has been sitting on end vertically.
	I have on some occasions (2 to be exact) gotten read/write
errors on the drive. One time I was able to recover the data and mark
the sector bad. The next time I wasn't so lucky. I had to do a low-level
format and then re-buil the disk. It was more of a pain than anything
else because as a well trained professional person I had a recent
full backup. (I do them one time a week.)

Dave

Dave Draper
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Internet: draper@bu-tyng.bu.edu
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