30 Jan
2003
30 Jan
'03
3:33 a.m.
Yes, but that was with older MFM drives. The latest generation of drives to
not suffer from that disease. (Newer drives position the head with servo
tracks; the older MFM drives positioned the head mechically which could
change depending upon how the drive was mounted.)
Douglas Wood
Software Engineer
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Feldman, Robert" <Robert_Feldman(a)jdedwards.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: RE: OT: the 1U system
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
<snip>
I wonder if disk drives fail at the same rates horizontally
as they do vertically (an open question) ?
John A.