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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Standing Mac II Base Unit on end:  is this safe?
Message-ID: <4566@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Oct 88 15:11:52 GMT
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Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
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In article <7041@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) writes:

>NO!  NO!  NO!

>The internal Hard Drive in a Mac II is mounted side to side, NOT fore and aft
>as in a PC. Hard Drives, like the Seagate series, and probably others,
>are designed the be mounted flat, or on one edge or the other. In a
>on its face or on its rear. Seagate specifically says that standing 
>one of their units on its face or its rear will VOID the warranty.

Thank goodness Apple doesn't use Seagate drives in the Mac.  My unit has been
running vertically for some time now.  Besides, the warranty was only 90 days,
and that is long gone :-)

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)