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From: stevens@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Curt Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Standing Mac II Base Unit on end:  is this safe?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 18:40:59 GMT
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>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
>Mac II, turning the system unit on either side would stand the Hard Disk
>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.

I have a CDC Wren III drive in my mac and I have been assured by the
company I purchased it from (NuData) that any orientation is safe for
that drive. I must agree with them since my drive has been operating
perfectly for 14 months in the vertical position! As for voiding the
warranty, if your drive is more than 90 days old you probably don's have
a warranty anymore.

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