18 Jan
2001
18 Jan
'01
1:51 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William Fulmor wrote:
But, of course! In the 'early' days, that was certainly true. However,
in the era of the XT8000 series - approximately the same as the XT2190 -
the documentation stated that it could be mounted in any position. They
did recommend not facing the circuit board towards a switch mode power
supply as some of them had rather high electromagnetic radiation,
though.
Now days, it seems anything goes.
- don
I've had very good luck shutting up
XT2190's and RD54's simply by
turning them upside-down. In my particular set up (old pee cee cases)
they also run _much_ cooler. That might present mounting and cabling
complications in your situation. YMMV.
I can't say why (this is ignorant input :) but for some reason you're not
supposed to run hard drives upside down. I'm sure some genius will pipe
in now ;0) Sellam Ismail
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