30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
2:53 a.m.
Folklore for PC's was that if you recorded data on a hard drive with the
platters horizontal, remounting it vertically could cause read errors. Any
truth to this?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Allain [mailto:allain@panix.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:32 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: the 1U system
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I wonder if disk drives fail at the same rates horizontally
as they do vertically (an open question) ?
John A.